Shreds of Earth

Yitzhak Laor

1982

On a night like this if a shudder were to shake your flesh as though a nightmare

had severed your sleep I could have risen and quietly walked to the kitchen

to write you a poem that would bring you back to me in the morning to gather this rising tide

of love where you do not know how much I love you

and you will read it tomorrow

and now on this…

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Yitzhak Laor

b. 1948

Poet, playwright, novelist, and peace activist Yitzhak Laor was born in Pardes Hannah, Israel. Laor has published critical works on literature, as well as novels and poetry. He also writes about literature and politics for Haaretz. In 2005, he founded Mita’am: A Review of Literature and Radical Thought. Laor received the Prime Minister’s Prize in 2001 and the Yehuda Amichai Prize for Hebrew Poetry in 2007.

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