Israel is a literary giant in so many ways, as writers from Israel continue to leave their footprints across world literature. Kaleidoscope brings together three exceptional and significant Israeli poets into one volume, representing three generations in the evolution and development of the nation s poetry. A selection of works by three unique poets: Ory Bernstein, Raquel Chalfi, and Shimon Adaf, this anthology reveals each poet s voice while also reflecting three movements in Israeli poetry."

Shimon Adaf and Lavie Tidhar are two of Israel's most subversive and politically outspoken writers. Growing up on opposite sides of the Israeli spectrum - Tidhar in the north of Israel in the Zion-ist, socialist Kibbutz; Adaf from a family of religious Mizrahi Jews living in Sderot - the two nevertheless shared a love of books, and were especially drawn to the strange visions and outrageous sensibilities of the science fiction that was available in Hebrew.

In Art and War, they engage in a dialogue that covers their approach to writing the fantastic, as they question how to write...