Threshold

Shirley Kaufman is an American poet and translator who has lived in Israel for thirty years. Her poetry bears witness to daily life in Jerusalem as it explores the ambiguities of uneasy identity and relationships -- race and religion, married love, mothers and daughters, cultural history and individual aging. In this astonishingly beautiful collection, her concern with rage, suffering, and fear -- especially among Israelis and Palestinians -- is deeply revealed in poems of profound consequence that question the role of art in all our lives. She writes, "What lasts is what we are up against." Book jacket.Kaufman, Shirley is the author of 'Threshold', published 2003 under ISBN 9781556591921 and ISBN 1556591926.