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Irit Amiel's Guilt

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today a poem for a Day 5 (March, 2014)

GUILT

Every time I play with my grandchildren

my parents stand and watch over us in silence.

They stare with severity, without a shadow

of a smile, of love or of joy.

Father’s head as bald as any knee.

Mother’s dress as grey as ash.

And often I ask myself the question:

are they simply judging me

for existing still?


Irit Amiel (Irena Librowicz) is a translator, poet and writer. She was born in Częstochowa in 1931. Both her parents died in Treblinka in 1942. Just before leaving Ghetto for the concentration camp, they managed to hide little Irena in the secure place. After war she emigrated to Palestine, later she settled in Israel, where she lives and works

Samples of Irit's poetry here

Podcast with Irit in London (2013) here

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  • HOME Gender/Queer/Culture
    • Author of the SITE >
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      • Academic Courses: QUICK LINKS
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        • Women's Voices
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        • Monstrous Gender (BASEES Conference, Cambridge 2015)
        • PO(st)GRANICZNE NARRACJE MIEJSKIE (konferencja, SZCZECIN, październik 2014)
        • Conference Talk Perpetual Others
    • Programme gender/queer/the other europe >
      • UCL Festival of Culture 2017
    • Gendering Culture Eastern Europe: Poland Focus COURSE >
      • READER Gendering EE AND POLAND
    • Abortion Talk 2016
    • Wioletta Greg, Swallowing Mercury and Women's Writing >
      • Wioletta Greg meeting, February 2, 2017
    • VARIA On Women's Writing >
      • Enemies Project February 2014
      • London stories
      • 14 women's poems for 14 days of Spring
  • BOOK: Melancholic Migrating Bodies
    • Content of the book