 | Ricky Rapoport Friesem is a poet and documentary filmmaker. She has also written two cook books: Fruits of the Earth (Adama Books, 1985) and Joy of Israel (Steimatzky, 1976). In 2007, her first poetry collection,( Parentheses). was awarded First Prize in Writer's Digest 2007 International Self-Published Book Awards . |
Reviews
… this beautifully designed poetry collection is a passionate reflection of the poet's multicultural heritage and the conflicts it engenders. Spare and direct, these poems cry out with the voice of a woman whose life has been shaped by the Holocaust that robbed her of a family, by the North America she abandoned and the Israel she adopted, by the sons she raised in peace who found themselves at war, by the ideals she grew up with and the reality she lives with. Sometimes with humor, affection and nostalgia, sometimes with irony, regret and anger, but always with passion, insight and honesty, the poems in Parentheses provide a condensed powerful expression of our era. --from the Amazon.com website
“Her free verse poetry is articulate, universal, carefully crafted and effectively presented both in tone and in imagery. --Small Press Bookwatch: February 2008
“First place winner of the Writer's Digest Press 2007 Annual International Self-Published Book Awards for poetry,(Parentheses): Poems for the 21st Century is a particularly impressive compilation of the poetry of Israeli documentary filmmaker Ricky Rapoport Friesem... [It] will aptly serve to introduce her poetry to an appreciative American readership. --J. R. McCarthy Serious Ink Press
About the Author
Born in Calgary and raised in Toronto, Canada, Ricky Rapoport Friesem moved to Israel in 1972. For 25 years she worked as a journalist, editor, and award-winning documentary film maker for the Weizmann Institute of Science, whose Communications Department she headed for over a decade. She is married to a physicist and has 3 sons and 12 grandchildren.
Her poetry has appeared in Moment, Ariga, Lucidity, Poetica, the 2007 Voices Israel Anthology and Poetry Canada, and the Jewish Daily Forward. She received Honorable Mention in both the 2005 and 2006 Poetica Magazine Annual Poetry Contest, in Lilith Magazine’s 2007 Charlotte Newberger Poetry Competition, in the 2007 Reuben Rose Memorial Poetry Competition, and 2nd prize in Palabras Press Dancing with Words contest. A collection of her poetry, entitled My Intifada was published in the Pudding House Publications Chapbook Series in 2006
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