Tali Cohen Shabtai is from Jerusalem, Israel. She has three poetry books: "Purple Diluted in a Black’s Thick", (bilingual 2007), "Protest" (bilingual 2012) and "Nine Years From You" (2018).
Tali’s poems express spiritual and physical exile. She is studying her exile and freedom paradox. Her cosmopolitan vision is very obvious in her writings. She lived some years in Oslo, Norway and in the U.S.A.
Tali studied at the David Yellin College of Education for a bachelor's degree. She is a member of the Hebrew Writers Association and the Israeli Writers Association.
In 2014, Cohen Shabtai also participated in a Norwegian documentary about poets' lives called "The Last Bohemian"- "Den Siste Bohemien",and screened in the cinema in Scandinavia.
By 2020, her fourth book of poetry will be published which will also be published in Norway. Her literary works have been translated into many languages as well.
I have to know the wage of text
For a poet, silence is an acceptable, even flattering response,
claimed Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette.
Another claimed
that the calm that is the history of silence
is the poet's revenge.
Look, I walk around with a quill
between my teeth
Some people have their sensory hearing absorbed into in the most unexpected organs, and some will qualify in silence, accordingly I have to know the wage
of
text —
Surely, the initial reaction in humans
in their early lives is the voice, after
which everything else is a charade.
Tali will be featured in GAS 10, due out December 5th.
