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Today, host Marcela Sulak reads\\xa0the work\\xa0of Tel Aviv-based poet Tahel Frosh.\\xa0Her debut poetry collection, from which these poems have been chosen, was published in 2014. Translator Adriana Jacobs calls it one of the most urgent and political books of poetry published in recent years. Here is an excerpt from "The Mountains of Spain":

"All of this is so impossible
that it holds back thoughts of love and
lust and my will to breathe the air
after rain so much
that I\\u2019ll lose myself in a book
called\\xa0Cocaine Nights
and get mad when I read about people with
money, so much money
that they retire to the mountains of Spain
and sunbathe in fancy villas
at the age of thirty-eight."

Frosh\\u2019s stunningly crafted poems, which include a number of prose poems, offer a critique of Israel\\u2019s free-market economy, the housing crisis, and globalization through the perspective of Israel\\u2019s working class. She\\xa0has degrees in law and psychology, and is currently working on a doctorate in literature. She\\xa0co-edited the anthology Avodat Gilui ("Unveiling Work") and is a member of the art and social justice collective Cultural Guerrilla.

Texts:
\\u201cThe Mountains of Spain,\\u201d and \\u201cAccountant,\\u201d translated by Adriana X Jacobs in World Literature Today.

Music:
Tahel Frosh - Shirey Zman
Maya Belzitsman & Matan Efrat - Yafa Kalevana (orig. by Evyatar Banai)
Tahel Frosh - Shir Tshuka