Yehuda Vizan (Hebrew: יהודה ויזן, born 1985 in Yehud) is an Israeli poet, editor, translator and critic. Vizan is the editor and founder of Dehak - A Magazine For Good Literature.

Poetry

Vizan has published five books of poetry: * ''Poems of Yehuda'' (Ah'shav, 2006) * ''Introduction to Light Aesthetics'' (Plonit, 2008) * ''Wringed'' (Ah'shav/Dehak, 2012) * ''Counter-Regulations'' (Makom LeShira, 2016) * ''Selected Poems 2005-2020'' (Carmel, 2020)

Prose

* ''Pekah'' (Achuzat Bayit, 2016). Won the Minister of Culture Award for a first novel.

Children's book

* "At Helel and Lilith's of the Galilee city" (illustrated by Noa Ṿikhansḳi, Keren, 2019)

Editing

* ''Ketem'' - a poetry newspaper (first three issues alongside Oded Carmeli), 2006-2008. *

Charles Baudelaire Charles Pierre Baudelaire (, ; ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poetry, French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist and art critic. His poems exhibit mastery in the handling of rhyme and rhythm, contain an exoticis ...

- ''Douze petits poemes en prose'', translated by:

David Frischmann David ben Saul Frischmann (, 31 December 1859 – 4 August 1922) was a Hebrew and Yiddish modernist writer, poet, and translator. He edited several important Hebrew periodicals, and wrote fiction, poetry, essays, feuilletons, literary criticism ...

& Uri Nissan Gnessin (Dehak, 2010) * ''

Ezra Pound Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a Fascism, fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works ...

- Selected Writings'' (Dehak, 2014) * ''Dehak - A Magazine For Good Literature'', 2011-to present. * ''Hebrew Poetry of the Haskalah: A Selection'', alongside Yehosheva Samet Shinberg (Dehak, 2020)

Translation

T. S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 18884 January 1965) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor.Bush, Ronald. "T. S. Eliot's Life and Career", in John A Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (eds), ''American National Biogr ...

- '' Murder in the Cathedral''. alongside Orit Gat, (Ah'shav, 2009) * T. S. Eliot - ''

Sweeney Agonistes ''Sweeney Agonistes'' by T. S. Eliot was his first attempt at writing a verse drama although he was unable to complete the piece. In 1926 and 1927 he separately published two scenes from this attempt and then collected them in 1932 in a small ...

'' (Ah'shav, 2009). * Virginia Woolf - ''Freshwater'' (Dehak, 2010) * Art Spiegelman - ''

Maus ''Maus'' is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Art Spiegelman, serialized from 1980 to 1991. It depicts Spiegelman interviewing his father about his experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. The work employs postmodern technique ...

: A Survivor's Tale'', Volumes I and II (Mineged, 2010) * Natan Zach - ''Imagism and Vorticism'' (Dehak, 2010) * James Joyce - '' The Cat and the Devil'' (Dehak, 2012) * James Joyce - '' The Cats of Copenhagen'' (Achuzat Bayit, 2019) * H. G. Wells - ''Marxism vs. Liberalism, An Interview Of Joseph Stalin By H.G. Wells'' (Dehak, 2013) * ''Words, Words, Words – On Hamlet''. A selection of essays about the play by Voltaire,

Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. The ''Oxford ...

, Coleridge, Chesterton,

Arnold Arnold may refer to: People * Arnold (given name), a masculine given name * Arnold (surname), a German and English surname Places Australia * Arnold, Victoria, a small town in the Australian state of Victoria Canada * Arnold, Nova Scotia Uni ...

, Eliot, Auden,

Poe Edgar Allan Poe (; Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widel ...

, Wilde & Goethe. (Resling, 2016) * William Faulkner - '' The Wishing Tree'', (Rimonim, 2016) * ''Other People's Poems'' - English poetry translations (Ah'shav, 2016) * Flannery O'Connor - ''The Nature and Aim of Fiction'' (Dehak, 2021) * Wallace Stevens - Adagia (Dehak, 2022) Vizan has also translated dozens of poems, essays and short plays by writers such as:

, T.S. Eliot,

T.E. Hulme Thomas Ernest Hulme (; 16 September 1883 – 28 September 1917) was an English critic and poet who, through his writings on art, literature and politics, had a notable influence upon modernism. He was an aesthetic philosopher and the 'father ...

, Wyndham Lewis, Charles Olson, Louis Zukofsky, Dorothy Parker, Edgar Allan Poe, Philip Larkin, Frank O'Hara, W.H. Auden, Robert Creeley,

Edward Lear Edward Lear (12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limerick (poetry), limericks, a form he popularised. ...

, Flannery O'Connor,

G. K. Chesterton Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer, philosopher, Christian apologist, and literary and art critic. He has been referred to as the "prince of paradox". Of his writing style, ''Time'' observed: "Wh ...

, Wallace Stevens, Edith Sitwell, Hope Mirrlees, Robert Duncan, William Blake and many others. he also published a translation of several fragments from Joyce's '' Finnegans Wake''.

External links

Meet the Iconoclast of Israel's Poetry World. An interview with Yehuda Vizan, Haaretz, 31.8. 2012Yehuda Vizan at the Modern Hebrew Literature Bio-Bibliographical LexiconYehuda Vizan at Poetry International Web
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