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  • It’s Not Worth It
  • Hamutal Bar-Yosef (bio)
    Translated by Marcia Falk

It’s not worth it to me to askwhether you love me,whether you’re happy,whether this arrangement works for you.

But look how much trouble I go toimmersing myself in answers to questionsthat haven’t even occurred to you.And may never occur to you. [End Page 197]

Hamutal Bar-Yosef

HAMATUL BAR-YOSEF has won the Akum Prize (1978), Tel Aviv Prize (1984), the Jerusalem Prize for poetry (1997), the WIZO Prize for the Creative Woman (1999), the President of Israel Prize for poetry (2002), and the Brenner Prize for poetry (2005). Her poems have been translated into English, German, Yiddish, Arabic and various other languages.

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