Publications.
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Portrait of a Poet
A Portrait, classically defined, has design and color and in Covensky's poetry color is variegated and design constantly recombines multiple configurations around a central core.
Description by Professor Michael Giordano
Published by Henschel Haus.
English version available as an e-book only.
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Genesis
The publication was translated into Spanish and published in Argentina the summer of 2019.
Selected Poems Hebrew & English
Edith Covensky reads selected poems in Hebrew and English.
Available to purchase in Argentina and through the publisher.
Life as Fiction
This book raises and explores the perplexing question of existence itself, taking the reader on an intimate journey through the dualities of memory and fantasy, fear and joy, and the erotic mated with the sanctified.
Description by Jeffrey Covensky
Currently not available for purchase in the U.S.
A Reality that is Not
As the title reveals, Edith Covensky's world exists on or in the ever-shifting borders between reality and non-reality. It affirms the value of both, even while recognizing that the mind is tugging toward reality and the imagination is resisting it.
Available for purchase in the U.S. and Israel.
Under a Silky Sky The Symbolist Poetry of Edith Covensky by Yair Mazor
This book of literary scholarship is dedicated to the Symbolist poetry of Edith Covensky, one of the most creative, original, and prolific poets in the arena of modern Hebrew poetry.
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Where To Go?
This bi-lingual (Hebrew-English) dialogue book, 'Where to Go'? functions as a supplement to teaching the Hebrew language abroad in universities, Hebrew High Schools and other learning institutes.
Available for purchase in the U.S. and Israel.
Poetry by Edith Covensky
Alias
My name is made up
A kind of imaginary biography
Resolutely twisted
Like a picturesque model
Too serious to be synthetic
Sharing regular habits of sights
In a game of identities
And exchanges of time
And exchanges of place.
I cannot explain these signs
Remaining marginal in my writings
With a name complex
And old time
Erupting in the storm of words
On a public bench
And writing again on sand
What the sea will not erase.
A Portable Poet
I wander
Creating language within language
Becoming a portable poet
Chasing the sun.
Silence destroys like fire
In a blue summer
Flows before the river of God
Cut from water.
And then I play with words
Fly like a star in glorified night
Paved by time
And yearnings
And endless love
Uplifted like a good sign for the end of days.
The poem is some kind of advantage
(You say)
Funny like a speech of words
Renewed in memory
Before a lofty spirit
And fleeting writing
Carved in stone upon stone.
Night Talk
My dream with your dream against the sea
On a day which is all words
And waves of words
And a myriad of loves
And a potential biography in its infancy
And in my head
Wrapped in night
Crowding on the page.
And my thoughts whiten in gloom
Which accords them a sense of landscape
Like a first star descending concrete stairs
Revolving among shadows
In a fleeting eroticism
Without profaning the words.
Latest Publication - A Simple Woman
Did you miss Edith Covensky on FM 106 in Israel!?
Listen to Edith's lasest interview on FM 106 in Israel reading some of her poetry and talking about her new book, A Simple Woman.
"Edith read from her poems and we heard from her about her new book "A Simple Woman" (Orion Publishing), which is a fascinating journey into the depths of Edith's soul. Despite the name of the book, the simplicity of the speaker is complex."