Yona Wallach
Yona Wallach (1944 - 1985, b. Tel Aviv) was raised in the town of Kiryat Ono (of which her father was a founder). near Tel Aviv. Her father died when she was a young child.
Wallach was active in the "Tel Aviv poets" circle which emerged around the journals Achshav and Siman Kriah in the 1960s, and was a frequent contributor to Israeli literary periodicals. She also wrote for and appeared with an Israeli rock group, and in 1982 her poetry was set to music and a record released. She died in 1985 following a protracted illness. Characterized by "an abundance of nervous energy," Yona Wallach's work combines elements from rock and roll, Jungian psychology and street slang in a body of work known for its break-neck pace and insistent sexuality. Writing in fluid lines, refusing to be limited by any conventional poetic structures, Wallach took upon herself the feminine revolution in Hebrew poetry. Presenting a provocative, blatantly sexual female figure, she became a stylistic model for many women poets.Books Published in Hebrew
Poetry
Things, Achshav, 1966 [Devarim]
Two Gardens, Daga, 1969 [Shnei Ganim]
Collected Poems, Siman Kriah, 1976 [Shirim]
Wild Light, Echut, 1983 [Or Pere]
Forms, Hakibbutz Hameuchad/Siman Kriah, 1985 [Tzurot]
Appearance, Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1985 [Mofah]
Selected Poems 1963-1985, Hakibbutz Hameuchad/Siman Kriah, 1992Books in Translation
Selected Poems
English: New York, Sheep Meadow, 1997Individual poems have been published in: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Vietnamese, and Yiddish.
- Yona Volach Funs.
