Podcasts religion Israel in Translation Ronny Someck's The Milk Underground

Ronny Someck's The Milk Underground

Published: Oct. 30, 2019, 6:49 p.m.

b'

Many poems in Ronny Someck\'s The Milk Underground deal with being a father of girls\\u2014adolescent and teenaged, young women. They explore the fraught territory of daughter\\u2019s bodies\\u2014body as dowry, body as a locus for pleasure and for betrayal, and the poems extend a fatherly embrace to the girls after their pained mother has broken off relations.

Previous Someck Episode

Text:

Ronny Someck, The Milk Underground, translated by Hana Inbar and Robert Manaster. White Pine Press, 2015.

'