2021a
Book / Poem
Language Hebrew
Published 2021
Editor David Neo Buhbut
Punctuation Esther Peled
Designer Ohad Hadad
Book Series RAF
Publication House KTAV
Print House A.R (tel aviv, israel)
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A four-part poem (0, 1, 2, 3). Its title can be translated in two ways: “We Are Burrows” (hollow passages), or “We Are Forgiven.” The title above is the original Hebrew.
Although its underlying logic is musical rather than thematic, part 0 can be read as a “family elegy,” while parts 1–3 form a kind of prophetic–epic manifesto.
I completed the first draft just before beginning my studies at the School of Visual Theatre in 2017. It was 115 pages long. I then asked David Neo Buhbut to edit it. Four more years of work followed. From that 115-page draft, only one line remains in the final version: “to discover something like a phenomenon.”
The work was made “on the side,” fed by remnants, disappointments, and hallucinations. It was written and rewritten throughout, in a boundless collaboration with the one who became, over time, not only editor but chosen family: David Neo Buhbut. Along the way, Esther Peled served as a necessary external reader—an incisive anchor preventing the poem from collapsing into pure idiosyncrasy. Eventually the poem was tightened into a form that serves nothing but itself, a form that can appear only once. This is it.
Thank you David Neo Buhbut, Esther Peled, Menahem Goldenberg, Tal Rosen, Orna Levi