Migo
Hedva Harechavi: Poems 2008-2016
Translated by Linda Zisquit, introduced by Lilach Lachman
Hedva Harekhavi (1941-2026) is regarded as one of the great modern Israeli poets.
Migo, Harechavi’s final work, clearly and powerfully translated by Linda Zisquit, concerns the untimely death of her son, and addresses her grief in incantatory verse which has been compared to that of Gertrude Stein and Sylvia Plath.
Harechavi won several prizes in poetry, among them the Prime Minister Prize for Poetry in 1982 and 1993, and The Yehuda Amichai Prize for poetry in 2010.
Hedva Harechavi is acclaimed to be one of the great Hebrew poets of our time. Aged 83 in 2025, fierce, with her black cowboy boots, somewhat bent over as if intent to catch up and listen to what she has just missed, Harechavi is widely loved for her hypnotic performative poetry and her ecstatic and direct personal voice. She is admired by younger poets, poetry lovers, and a wide Israeli audience for her courage to voice “the unconscious,” the “mad,” and the traumatic. She is appreciated for her power to express “what cannot be said,” for her simultaneous encompassing of the erotic and the prosaic, for her open musical forms, and for her wild language that circulates from the holy to the profane. Above all, her readers are captivated by her multivocality, which shifts between the passionate female lover and the grief-stricken mother. Her poetry has received major literary recognition, including the Yehuda Amichai Prize (2010), the Bialik Award (2014), the Leah Goldberg Literary Award (2020), and the Arik Einstein Award for contributions to Israeli culture (2023). Most recently, Migo was awarded the Zelda Prize for Poetry (2023).
- By (author) Hedva Harechavi
- Introduction by Lilach Lachman
- Translated by Linda Stern Zisquit
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