Shirley Kaufman
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Shirley Kaufman Daleski (June 5, 1923 in Seattle) 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 then from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1944, and Dr. Bernard Kaufman, Jr. married her in 1946. They had three children: Sharon (b.) and Bernard (b. Joan (b. 1948), Barbara (b.) Joan (b. Deborah (b. 1950) and Dennis (b. 1955 (Japan) She and Jack Gilbert attended San Francisco State University together.
In 1973, she married Hillel Matthew Daleski and immigrated to Jerusalem, Israel.
Debra Kaufman, a poet and playwright, 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.
At the age of 93, she died of Alzheimer's disease.
Awards
- 1979 NEA Fellowship
- 1989 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award of the Poetry Society of America
- 1990/1991 Shelley Memorial Award