Igor Guberman
Israeli writer · Israel · On the map · Writers · Born 1936 · age 90
Igor Mironovich Guberman is a Jewish Ukrainian writer and poet who lives in Israel since 1988. His poetry has received a great deal of acclaim primarily because of his signature aphoristic and satiric quatrains that he called gariki in Russian.
Igor Guberman is read about 148 times a day, in 11 languages.
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These short poems usually feature an ABAB rhyme scheme, employ various poetic meters, and cover a wide range of subjects including antisemitism, immigrant life, anti-religious sentiment, and the author's complicated relationship with Russia, Israel, and the respective cultures. Gariki are mostly humorous and often paradoxical, verging on philosophical.
