Aharon Shabtai

Aharon Shabtai lives in Tel Aviv. He has published numerous Hebrew translations of Greek tragedies. Love and Selected Poems is available from Sheep Meadow Press

Two Poems

Aharon Shabtai, translated by Peter Cole, 30 November 2000

Culture

The mark of Cain won’t sprout from a soldier who shoots at the head of a child on a knoll by the fence round a refugee camp – for beneath his helmet, conceptually speaking, his head is made of cardboard. On the other hand, the officer has read The Rebel; his head is enlightened, and so he does not believe in the mark of Cain. He’s spent time in museums, and when he...

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