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The Defiant Muse: Hebrew Feminist Poems from Antiquity to the Present (review)

At long last we are fortunate to receive not only a comprehensive bilingual anthology of women's Hebrew poetry, but one that encompasses close to three thousand years of poetic creation. More than one hundred poems by over fifty poets appear in their Hebrew original and in English translation, starting with the biblical songs of Miriam and Deborah and ending with poems written in the 1990s by the likes of Dahlia Ravikovitch, Hamutal Bar-Yosef, Efrat Mishori and Sharon Hass. This much-awaited enterprise follows the recent publication of two translated anthologies of women's Hebrew prose,1 all reflecting the current surge in the status of, and interest in, women's writing in Hebrew.2 An anthology of this magnitude is by no means an easy task to accomplish. While modern poems are abundant, getting hold of older material can prove to be very difficult, requiring a great deal of research and a modicum of luck. As the editors let us know in the introductions, considerable efforts went into gathering and selecting the material, at times with frustrating results. But the final product is indeed a celebration of women's poetic voices and a needed testimony to the reclamation of women's part in the history of the Hebrew language. Most major eras and areas in which women's poetic work could be accessed or retrieved are represented in the new anthology, as are many