← Back to author list Rachel Tzvia Back Rachel Tzvia Back is the author of three original poetry collections and the translator of five collections of Hebrew poetry, including the award-winning In the Illuminated Dark: Selected Poems of Tuvia Ruebner (HUC Press) and On the Surface of Silence: The Last Poems of Lea Goldberg (HUC Press). Her next collection of original poetry, What Use Is Poetry, the Poet Is Asking, is forthcoming from Shearsman Books.
September 17, 2018 The Day Turned Rachel Tzvia Back One of Lea Goldberg’s last poems was inspired by a prayer from the Yom Kippur liturgy.