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‘I’m Different From Amos Oz, I Was Never Declared a Saint’

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He is Aharon Shabtai, an important Israeli poet who caused a revolution with his erotic poetry. She is his daughter Nano, a poet, author and critic. The two talk about the family that fell apart and the clash between the family man and the poet

Growing up, every book my father published was accompanied by a spate of revealing interviews in the newspapers. Our private lives, with all their drama, were on display. My father’s erotic poems and open discussion of intimate matters in the press were painful and embarrassing for the family. Over the years, we got used to it and each found our own way to cope and laugh about it – or at least try to.