Shirley Kaufman

Shirley Kaufman (born June 5, 1923 Seattle) is an American poet and translator.^[1]

Life

Her parents immigrated from Poland. She grew up in Seattle and graduated from James A. Garfield High School in 1940. She graduated from University of California, Los Angeles in 1944, and in 1946 she married Dr. Bernard Kaufman, Jr. They had three daughters: Sharon (b. 1948), Joan (b. 1950) and Deborah (b. 1955). She studied at San Francisco State University, with Jack Gilbert.

She married Hillel Matthew Daleski and immigrated to Jerusalem, Israel in 1973.

Her daughter Deborah made a short film about her poem "Ezekiel's Wheels".^[2]

Her work has appeared in Ploughshares,^[3] Harper's,^[4] American Poetry Review,^[5] and The New Yorker.^[6]

The Floor Keeps Turning. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1970.
Gold Country. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1973.
Looking at Henry Moore’s Elephant Skull Etchings in Jerusalem During the War. Greensboro, North Carolina: Unicorn Press. 1977. ISBN 9780877751083. second edition, 1979
Hebrew translation by Dan Pagis, Tel Aviv: 1980
From One Life to Another. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1979. ISBN 9780822953005.
Claims. New York: The Sheep Meadow Press. 1984. ISBN 9780935296532.
Rivers of Salt. Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press. 1993. ISBN 9781556590559.
Roots in the Air: New and Selected Poems. Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press. 1996. ISBN 9781556590559.
Me-Hayyim le-Hayyim Aherim (selected poems in Hebrew translated by Aharon Shabtai, Dan Miron and Dan Pagis). Jerusalem: 1995
Un abri pour nostêtes (selected poems in French translated by Claude Vigée). Bilingual edition, Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France: 2003
Threshold. Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press. 2003. ISBN 9781556591921.
Ezekiel's Wheels. Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press. 2009. ISBN 9781556593079.

Abba Kovner (1971). My Little Sister. London. ISBN 9780932440204. 2nd edition 1986
Abba Kovner (1973). A Canopy in the Desert. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 9780822952329.
Scrolls of Fire, translated from the Hebrew of Abba Kovner. Tel Aviv: 1978
Amir Gilboa (1979). The Light of Lost Suns. New York: Persea Books. ISBN 9780892550371.
Judith Herzberg (1988). But What: Selected Poems of Judith Herzberg. Oberlin, Ohio: Oberlin College Press. ISBN 9780932440242.
Meir Wieselteir (Fall, 2003). The Flower of Anarchy: Selected Poems. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520235533. http://books.google.com/?id=_dI4OEEVS-AC&dq=Shirley+Kaufman&printsec=frontcover.

Robert Hass, David Lehman, ed (2001). "The Emperor of China". The Best American Poetry 2001. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9780743203845. http://books.google.com/?id=yeyJ_UMIlyYC&pg=PA124&lpg=PA124&dq=Shirley+Kaufman.