Author Description

Without fuss and with clarity, restraint, and honesty, Hamutal Bar-Yosef occupies a unique place in Israeli poetry, carrying with him both an impassioned vision of the traces of damage done and a ferocious lust for life. El lugar donde duele offers a comprehensive thematic anthology of his poems spanning four decades, and guides the reader to region both turbulent and illuminated by the light of a mature and sensitive intelligence.