Poetry By Edith Covensky

Edith Covensky

Edith Covensky is a Hebrew poet living in the United States. She has authored 34 books of poetry, in Hebrew, bilingually in Hebrew and English, trilingually in Hebrew, Arabic and English, as well as in Romanian and Spanish.

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Portrait of a Poet By Edith Covensky

Genesis by Edith Covensky

Selected Poems by Edith Covensky

Portrait of a Poet By Edith Covensky

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Publications

Covensky started writing Hebrew poetry in 1981, publishing her first poem "Small Blessings" (Hebrew: "Al Hassadim Ktanim") in Bitzaron, a distinguished literary journal issued by New York University, in 1982. She has published to date 36 poetry books. Her numerous individual poems have been published in Israel, Canada, and in the United States.

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Life as Fiction: Truth as Paradox in Edith Covensky’s Poetry

Life as Fiction will be my mother, Edith Covensky’s thirty-first book of poetry published in Israel. Her books have been published by Eked, under the leadership of renown poet and publisher, Itamar Yaoz Kest, who accepted my mother’s first book, Other Words (Eked, 1985) for publication, and by Gvanim, recently led by noted poet and publisher, Amos Levitan. My mother’s poems have also been published in numerous Hebrew language periodicals circulating across Israel, the United States, and Canada, and have been translated into English, Arabic, Romanian, French and Spanish. Her collection of poems translated into French is the focus of a dense and comprehensive introduction written by distinguished French scholar, Professor Michael Giordano of Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, entitled: The Poetry of Edith Covensky: A Spectrum of Human Situations – a highly insightful study of the influence of French Symbolism on my mother’s poetry.

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Poetry Readings & Musical Interludes

Portrait Of A Poet Book Trailer

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חני דינור - ניגון

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Edith Covensky's Poems

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EDITH COVENSKY - PORTRAIT OF A POET

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Reviews

Professor Yair Mazor

"Your poetry possesses and displays appealing aesthetic characteristics, merged with an ideological bedrock of significant substance."

Professor Michael Giordano

"Your poetry makes our lives much more appreciative of those intangible wonders that give us a feeling of depth, dimension, innovation, infinity, and a rare distilled crystal moment of seeing the world anew."

Writer & Poet Seymour Mayne

"Your poems very much remind me of the work of the great Yiddish lyricist, Rachel Korn, who also inhabited the universe of her verse."

Israeli Poet, Yaara Ben David

"The poems in 'Portrait of a Poet', bring forth a poetic profile molded by love, time, poetics, solitude, longing, silence vision, and words. " I speak to myself like to God" signifies the poet's life within words in different states of mind."