published by Eked publishing house and was rejected, likely because she did not permit any revisions. She became a member of the "Tel Aviv Poets" group, which was influenced by American Beat Poetry, with poets Meir Weiseltier and Yair Hurvitz. It is unknown at what age she wrote her first published poems. The first of her poems to be published, one without a title, was printed on January 3, 1964 in Yediot Aharanot when she was nineteen. Hurvitz submitted the poem for her to the literary magazine. In the following months five more of her poems had been published in various magazines and periodicals, and her name was mentioned in Ha-Boker as an "important young Israeli avant-garde poet." She spent the next few years neglecting her writing to experiment with sex and drugs, which decidedly influenced much of her future poetry. Wallach never left the country seeking intellectual inspiration like many of her literary counterparts. Instead, she surrounded herself with "societal misfits" and spent time exploring her inner self and Kabbalah — the ancient, mystical Jewish tradition of interpreting the Bible. Though she was well known in literary circles, she received little critical acclaim until the mid 1970s. Her 1976 volume of poems, Shira, received instant acclaim. She was unanimously accepted into the Tel-Aviv Foundation for Culture and Art and won three literary prizes between the summers of 1977 and 1978. Wallach became an Israeli celebrity, with tabloids following her around and her work becoming more widely published. Her final collection, Mofa, was published posthumously in 1985. Books in Hebrew Things, Achshav, 1966 [Devarim] Two Gardens, Daga, 1969 [Shnei Ganim] Collected Poems, Siman Kriah, 1976 [Shirim] Wild Light, Echut, 1983 [Or Pere] Forms, Hakibbutz Hameuchad/Siman Kriah, 1985 [Tzurot] Appearance, Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1985 [Mofah] Selected Poems 1963–1985, Hakibbutz Hameuchad/Siman Kriah, 1992 Books in translation Selected Poems, English: New York, Sheep Meadow, 1997 Wallach, Yona, and Zisquit, Linda. Let the Words : Selected Poems / Yona Wallach ; Translated by Linda Stern Zisquit. Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY: Sheep Meadow Press, 2006. Individual poems have been published in: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Vietnamese, and Yiddish. Awards awarded by the Municipality of Holon (1978) See also Hebrew literature Zelda (poet) Rachel (poet) Women in Israel References External links The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself, 2003, Profile at Poetry International Web A short biography,