“Life Itself Nourishes the Writing” – Interview in Gluyat Eynayim (Eyes Wide Open) columnin Gluya Magazine with Poet Mashi Peretz Dror on the Creative Processes Shaping Her Work.
“My wonderful editor once told me, in one of our earliest conversations, that my writing contains at least seven different kinds of poets. I’m not sure what that means, but perhaps that is what defines my voice: its fluidity. Sometimes I write a poem that is highly concrete, direct, and simple—almost matter-of-fact. At other times, my poems overflow with metaphor, to the point of becoming difficult to grasp, even exhausting.”
In this conversation, Peretz Dror speaks of writing as a sustaining, life-giving act. Her debut collection, Rak Al Ta’amisi (Just Don’t Overload), published by Iton 77, was born in the wake of a shattering family event that revealed poetry as a vessel for articulating what resists expression. She reflects on the tension between memory and forgetting in her work, the profound influence of her mother on her relationship with language, and the act of writing as a kind of “composting”—transforming reservoirs of emotion into something nourishing.
This interview offers an intimate look at processes of creation, the inner life of the psyche, and the delicate boundary between life and writing.
