This week, Marcela examine Shimon Adaf's wrenching and linguistically innovative elegy to his sister, who died at the age of 43. Aviva-No is Adaf's third collection of poetry, and it won the 2010 Yehuda Amichai Prize. It has been translated into English by Yael Segalovitz. Text: <a href="https://www.alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/aviva-no" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Aviva-No by Shimon Adaf. Translated by Yael Sigalovitz. Alice James Books, 2019.</a>

This week, Marcela examine Shimon Adaf's wrenching and linguistically innovative elegy to his sister, who died at the age of 43. Aviva-No is Adaf's third collection of poetry, and it won the 2010 Yehuda Amichai Prize. It has been translated into English by Yael Segalovitz. Text: Aviva-No by Shimon Adaf. Translated by Yael Sigalovitz. Alice James Books, 2019.

This week, Marcela examine Shimon Adaf's wrenching and linguistically innovative elegy to his sister, who died at the age of 43. Aviva-No is Adaf's third collection of poetry, and it won the 2010 Yehuda Amichai Prize. It has been translated into English by Yael Segalovitz. Text: <a href="https://www.alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/aviva-no" rel="noopener noreferrer">Aviva-No by Shimon Adaf. Translated by Yael Sigalovitz. Alice James Books, 2019.</a>

Shimon Adaf's "Aviva-No"

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Shimon Adaf's "Aviva-No"

Shimon Adaf's "Aviva-No"