Childhood is life’s birthplace: Riky Cohen and Miron C. Izakson talk with Lea Klibanoff-Ron

“Rachok Yoter” (Further Away) is the latest novel by poet, author, and professor of literature Miron C. Izakson. The author follows Dudi, a sensitive and vulnerable boy, who develops a great love for mechanical boom cranes. A meeting with Eitan, the crane operator, takes Dudi, his family, and the readers on an incredible adventure. In her new memoir, “Broken Hours,” the poet, author and editor Riky Cohen returns to her complicated childhood in the shadow of a mentally ill mother. In her gentle and careful writing, she retraces her delusional and painful childhood memories.

Cohen and Izakson will talk about the image of the child in their new books with editor Lea Klibanoff-Ron, and about the differences between a memoir and fiction in describing a return to one’s childhood. They will review the way in which the image of the child in their works combines memory, truth, pain, and longing for the “birthplace of life that is childhood,” as the poet Avot Yeshurun referred to it.

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