As portrayed in the biopic Yona, poet Yona Wallach was a literary rock star—extroverted, openly bisexual, and prone to public feuds with her contemporaries. She was also mentally ill, and at certain ...

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A cinematic journey into the world of Yona Wallach, an Israeli poet, whose radical life and poetry ended with her death at an early age, leaving behind a myth and a trail of admirers. More than 25 ...

Wallach's sexually voracious, semantically scrambled poetry burst like a dangerous phoenix onto the Israeli poetry scene in the 1960s. Through seven books and two decades, and still after her death in ...

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The Israeli poet Yona Wallach memorably wrote that “Hebrew is a sex maniac.” Wallach, who died in 1985, was no stranger to attention-grabbing subjects: One of her poems discusses sex with tefillin.