Shirley Kaufman

Shirley Kaufman Daleski (; June 5, 1923, in Seattle – September 25, 2016 in San Francisco) was an American-Israeli poet and translator.

Life Her parents immigrated from Poland. She grew up in Seattle and graduated from James A. Garfield High School in 1940 and from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1944, and in 1946 she married Dr. Bernard Kaufman, Jr. They had three daughters: Sharon (b. 1948), Joan (b. 1950) and Deborah (b. 1955). She studied at San Francisco State University with Jack Gilbert.

She married Hillel Matthew Daleski and immigrated to Jerusalem, Israel in 1973.

Her daughter, poet and playwright Debra Kaufman, made a short film about her poem "Ezekiel's Wheels".

Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Harper's, The American Poetry Review, and The New Yorker.

She died from Alzheimer's disease at the age of 93.

Awards 1979 NEA Fellowship 1989 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award of the Poetry Society of America 1990/1991 Shelley Memorial Award

Works

Poetry "Cyclamen"; "The Last Threshold", Poets Against War "Milk", Poetry Foundation

second edition, 1979 Hebrew translation by Dan Pagis, Tel Aviv: 1980

Me-Hayyim le-Hayyim Aherim (selected poems in Hebrew translated by Aharon Shabtai, Dan Miron and Dan Pagis). Jerusalem: 1995 Un abri pour nostêtes (selected poems in French translated by Claude Vigée). Bilingual edition, Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France: 2003

Translations 2nd edition 1986

Scrolls of Fire, translated from the Hebrew of Abba Kovner. Tel Aviv: 1978

Anthologies