Dark Times and Illuminating Mobilities: the Low Altitude Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch

Abstract

Dahlia Ravikovitch, one of the most representative poets of the contemporary Hebrew poetry, in her poem Hovering at a Low Altitude (2009) tell us that she discovered a social aesthetics method very simple to live, survive, and act in a pragmatic way in her personal and collective reality: which supposes, among others semantics layers, her impermanence too close to the ground, not even in a higher flight; that her heterogeneous mobility network was also built in a low altitude ambit. In this picture, we’ll accompany and reflect on a minimally representative set of her poems, which poetic theme and engineering remind us of the subjectivation currently happening in the Hebrew society, such as its multicultural condition and multiethnic conflicts, historic places of the female condition, the polyphonic mobility of the Jewish people, and above all the parameters of the human coexistence both the immediately possible and the utopic, in times of globalization.