Poetry. "For Raz poetic mind and language take precedence, and the unpredicatble, tragi-comic, contradictory and unsettling personal truths that lie behind any world-scale socio-political conflict are the actual reach of her penetrating poems. This is courageous, vulnerable work, hard won, and illuminating" - Gary Snyder. Yosefa Raz grew up in Jerusalem, served in the Israel Defense Force as a border guard and Hebrew teacher before receiving the Celest Turner Wright Poetry Prize.