It’s This Happiness, You Wanted Me to Touch
It’s This Happiness, You Wanted Me to Touch
Poetry
Mati Shemoelof
Pardes Publishing House, Haifa, 2024
Language: Hebrew
It’s This Happiness, You Wanted Me to Touch is a Hebrew poetry collection that continues Mati Shemoelof’s long engagement with migration, memory, family, Jewish-Mizrahi identity, and life between places and languages.
Written after years of living in Berlin, the collection brings together the experience of diaspora with memories of Israel, family history, and the changing meaning of belonging. The poems move between the intimate and the political, between personal memory and the larger histories that shape it.
The book belongs to the later stage of Shemoelof’s Hebrew poetry, in which the experience of migration and transnational life becomes increasingly central to his work.
Book details
Title: באושר הזה רצית שאגע
Author: Mati Shemoelof
Publisher: Pardes Publishing House
Year: 2024
Language: Hebrew
Genre: Poetry