Of Grandfatherly gentleness I'm devoid,
there's not a single grey hair in my soul!
Thundering the world with the might of my voice,
I go by – handsome,
twenty-two-year-old.
From the prologue of A Cloud in Trousers Vladimir Mayakovsky
The book which you are reading is a conceptual experiment – it holds 44 poems which represent the double number of my current years of life. Half of the poems assembled here were written by me during my adolescence – several of them were published in "Maayan" Magazine, some in "Gerila-Tarbut" and some in other occasions. The other half were written also by "adolescent-me", but in a different manner: they were written using the "adolescent-generator", a computerized poem machine which uses templates, phrases and typical articulations of my early writings.
I would like to thank Eran Hadas, who accompany me from the very beginning of my way as an artist, to whom I dedicate this book.
Yael Friedman, 2014
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- Length: 64
- Categories: IL
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