Shirley Kaufman Daleski (June 5, 1923 in Seattle – September 25, 2016 in San Francisco) was an American-Israeli poet and translator.[1]

Shirley Kaufman
BornShirley Kaufman Daleski
June 5, 1923
Seattle, Washington, U.S.
DiedSeptember 25, 2016(2016-09-25) (aged 93)
San Francisco, California, U.S.
OccupationPoet
NationalityAmerican
EducationJames A. Garfield High School
Alma materSan Francisco State University
GenrePoetry
Children3

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Her parents immigrated from Poland. She grew up in Seattle and graduated from James A. Garfield High School in 1940 and from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1944, and in 1946 she married Dr. Bernard Kaufman, Jr. They had three daughters: Sharon (b. 1948), Joan (b. 1950) and Deborah (b. 1955). She studied at San Francisco State University with Jack Gilbert.

She married Hillel Matthew Daleski and immigrated to Jerusalem, Israel in 1973.

Her daughter, poet and playwright Debra Kaufman, made a short film about her poem "Ezekiel's Wheels".[2]

Her work has appeared in Ploughshares,[3] Harper's,[4] The American Poetry Review,[5] and The New Yorker.[6]

She died from Alzheimer's disease at the age of 93.[7]

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Works

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Poetry

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  • "Cyclamen"; "The Last Threshold", Poets Against War
  • "Milk", Poetry Foundation
  • Bread and Water. Winter 1990–1991. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  • The Temples of Khajuraho. Spring 1988. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  • After the Wars. Spring 1984. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  • The Floor Keeps Turning. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1970. ISBN 9780822931904.
  • Gold Country. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1973. ISBN 9780822932697.
  • Looking at Henry Moore's Elephant Skull Etchings in Jerusalem During the War. Greensboro, North Carolina: Unicorn Press. 1977. ISBN 978-0-87775-108-3. second edition, 1979
  • Hebrew translation by Dan Pagis, Tel Aviv: 1980
  • From One Life to Another. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1979. ISBN 978-0-8229-5300-5.
  • Claims. New York: The Sheep Meadow Press. 1984. ISBN 978-0-935296-53-2.
  • Rivers of Salt. Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press. 1993. ISBN 978-1-55659-055-9.
  • Roots in the Air: New and Selected Poems. Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press. 1996. ISBN 978-1-55659-055-9.
  • Me-Hayyim le-Hayyim Aherim (selected poems in Hebrew translated by Aharon Shabtai, Dan Miron and Dan Pagis). Jerusalem: 1995
  • Un abri pour nostêtes (selected poems in French translated by Claude Vigée). Bilingual edition, Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France: 2003
  • Threshold. Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press. 2003. ISBN 978-1-55659-192-1.
  • Ezekiel's Wheels. Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press. 2009. ISBN 978-1-55659-307-9.

Translations

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Anthologies

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References

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  1. ^ Lois Miller Bar-Yaacov. "Shirley Kaufman". Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. Retrieved 30 June 2009.
  2. ^ Jennifer Modenessi (Aug 7, 2007). "Poetry, film blend, thanks to filmmaker's mother". Oakland Tribune. Archived from the original on December 9, 2019. Retrieved July 1, 2009.
  3. ^ "Read by Author | Ploughshares".
  4. ^ "Massaccio's Expulsion—By Shirley Kaufman (Harper's Magazine)". Archived from the original on 2011-11-10.
  5. ^ "APR Recent Issues". Archived from the original on 2009-04-15. Retrieved 2009-07-01.
  6. ^ "Search : The New Yorker". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 2012-10-14. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  7. ^ "Shirley Kaufman Daleski Obituary". October 2, 2016. Retrieved December 21, 2016 – via SFGATE Obituaries.
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