Tino Moshkovitz's New Poetry Book: Life in Dynamite Israel today

Those looking for clean and pleasant poetry - will not find it in the book "Belly Alpha", the third book of poetry by Tino Moshkovitz ("Greenspan", "400 Chicken"), winner of the Minister of Culture Award for Translators for 2018.

There is actually symmetry in the book, in the form of weight and rhyme, but they also do not make the songs harmonious, but function more like a rhythm of war drums that drummers themselves know, or like a horrible and threatening clock ticking in the background and constantly indicating a hidden bomb that could explode at any moment. .

Moskowitz's dynamite songs are about life itself, the body and everyday life, and they are blunt and unapologetic.

The cover songs that open the book, which Moskowitz calls "Alpha Belly - Poem," deal with the poet's partner's days of pregnancy, and are not soft and shiny songs about the natural miracle of pregnancy, but intense, sensual and burning songs, whose constant weight amplifies astonishingly.

Thus, for example, the song, which opens this cycle, and in fact the book: "I have to do it. An animal that stumbles, / You made light, you are a woman of fire. "

The many repetitions, the symmetrical weight (trophic tetrameter), the rhyme and the richness of sound make the song a kind of mesmerizing spell, in the style of the Shakespearean witches in "Macbeth", which presents the heroine of the poem - the pregnant belly.

Later in the title page, in the song "Big Belly", Moskowitz presents the absolute female supremacy in a similar way, calling the same belly "Alpha Belly", on the weight of "Alpha Male": " With a hole in the middle / and with you it is the belly of Alpha / the belly of a soldier the belly of Rabta. "

The poem is in the poem and we will have a good time. "

The futuristic and wild explosion of childbirth, accompanied by the drums of weight and rhyme, is sealed with calmness and the melody of a lullaby: "

The book, whose cover is painted bright red, describes with tremendous intensity the descriptions of pregnancy and childbirth as well as images from military service.

This, in the second poem in the book called "Matkhali". : "I have to do a lipid / eight support / I have to go to the lifetime, the oil, and a blessing,

the rest of the gray and the despair, the frustrated and the exhausting day, And powerful and accompanied by the same powerful drumming that governs even the first two exciting gates.

For example, in the awful song "What from how", the song that seals the book, describes as a metaphor the practical life and the sanctification of pragmatism and fertility, and in general human life, in the form of turning everything into a sausage: "Blood -? I have a good time. That every idiot knew - / what to make from what ". 

Tino Moshkovitz / Alpha Belly, Barash Publishing, 85 pages

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