116: Wartime Diaries - Agi Mishol
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🗓️ 8 November 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
77-year-old Agi Mishol is one of Israel’s most prominent, beloved and widely-read poets. Over the years she’s won practically every literary prize here, and Amos Oz once said that her poems “know how to tell a tale, to sing a song and also dance.” Her poetry is colorful and playful, full of nature and a love of the land. And that makes sense since – in addition to writing – Agi and her husband Giora are also farmers, who grow peaches, pomegranates and persimmons.
The end song is “Kalipso” by Dotan Malach.
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| 0:00.0 | May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get |
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| 0:16.5 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. You're listening to this podcast, so I know you care about the war in Israel right now. |
| 0:30.0 | And you've been reading the headlines, Massacre and Gaza, genocide perpetrated by Hamas, no by Israel. |
| 0:38.0 | But if you've been listening to this podcast long enough, you know one thing. This stuff seems complicated and honestly |
| 0:46.1 | you shouldn't just pick aside or decide your opinion without really learning, |
| 0:50.3 | without really knowing what you're talking about. |
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| 1:00.0 | They have episodes with topics ranging from what is Hamas anyway to whether Israel should ransom |
| 1:06.5 | captured soldiers and the history of Israel and its disengagement from Gaza in 2005. Unpacking Israeli history cuts through the noise |
| 1:16.9 | and helps you understand Israel's present through understanding Israel's |
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| 1:27.0 | Find unpacking Israeli history wherever you get your podcasts. I don't decide I will write now about this and that subject. I awakened in the morning and I begins with the birds, the first bird which starts chirping, is's a little chirping, like she says somebody is awake and I know |
| 1:59.7 | under the covers, yes I'm awake and I write about it and then I think well this is what you |
| 2:06.5 | write about in these days I mean well I will write now a poem about a |
| 2:12.1 | chipping of a bird and I think yes of course I have to why not |
| 2:18.0 | we have to remind me and others that this still exists. |
| 2:27.2 | Hey listeners, it's Mishi. |
| 2:30.2 | So as you know during these incredibly difficult days, we're trying to bring you voices we're hearing among and around us. |
| 2:39.0 | These aren't stories, they're just quick conversations or postcards really |
| 2:44.0 | that try to capture slivers of life right now. |
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