The Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai
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The Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780520275836 |
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| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Publication date: | 02/15/2013 |
| Series: | Literature of the Middle East |
| Edition description: | First Edition, Translated by Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell, with a New Foreword by C.K. Williams |
| Pages: | 224 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d) |
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Table of Contents
Foreword 2013 by C. K. Williams xi
Foreword 1996 by Chana Bloch xv
Part 1 edited and translated by Stephen Mitchell
From Now and in Other Days (1955)
God Has Pity on Kindergarten Children 1
The U.N. Headquarters in the High Commissioner's House in Jerusalem 1
Autobiography, 1952 2
The Smell of Gasoline Ascends in My Nose 3
Six Poems for Tamar 4
Yehuda Ha-Levi 5
Ibn Gabirol 6
When I Was a Child 6
Look: Thoughts and Dreams 7
From We Loved Here 8
From Two Hopes Away (1958)
God's Hand in the World 10
Sort of an Apocalypse 10
And That Is Your Glory 11
Of Three or Four in a Room 12
Not Like a Cypress 12
Through Two Points Only One Straight Line Can Pass 13
Half the People in the World 14
For My Birthday 15
Two Photographs 16
Poems for a Woman 17
Children's Procession 20
Ballad of the Washed Hair 20
Sonnet from the Voyage 21
The Visit of the Queen of Sheba 21
From In a Right Angle: A Cycle of Quatrains 27
From Poems, 1948-1962
As for the World 29
In the Middle of This Century 30
Farewell, 31
Such as Sorrow 32
Jerusalem 32
Before 33
And as Far as Abu Ghosh 33
You Too Got Tired 34
The Place Where We Are Right 34
Mayor 35
Resurrection 35
From Summer or Its End 36
In the Full Severity of Mercy 38
Too Many 39
Poem for Arbor Day 39
Jacob and the Angel 40
Here 41
Elegy on an Abandoned Village 42
The Elegy on the Lost Child 43
From Now in the Storm, Poems 1963-1968
Jerusalem, 1967 47
The Bull Returns 55
A Luxury 55
To Bake the Bread of Yearning 56
National Thoughts 57
A Pity. We Were Such a Good Invention 57
Elegy 58
Threading 59
Now in the Storm 59
Travels of the Last Benjamin of Tudela 60
Part 2 edited and translated by Chana Bloch
From Not for the Sake of Remembering (1971)
Jews in the Land of Israel 87
Wildpeace 88
The Way It Was 88
Instead of Words 89
Gifts of Love 90
Ballad in the Streets of Buenos Aires 90
Psalm 91
From Behind All This a Great Happiness Is Hiding (1976)
Seven Laments for the War-Dead 92
Like the Inner Wall of a House 96
Love Song 97
I've Grown Very Hairy 97
A Dog After Love 98
A Bride Without a Dowry 98
The Sweet Breakdowns of Abigail 99
To a Convert 99
My Father in a White Space Suit 100
A Letter of Recommendation 101
On the Day I Left 101
A Letter 102
In a Leap Year 103
A Quiet Joy 104
A Mutual Lullaby 104
From Songs of Zion the Beautiful 105
From Time (1978)
Songs of Continuity 115
At the Monastery of Latroun 115
When I Was Young, the Whole Country Was Young 116
I Walked Past a House Where I Lived Once 117
To My Love, Combing Her Hair 117
The Diameter of the Bomb 118
When I Banged My Head on the Door 118
You Carry the Weight of Heavy Buttocks 119
Advice for Good Love 119
You Are So Small and Slight in the Rain 120
A Man Like That on a Bald Mountain in Jerusalem 121
When a Man's Far Away from His Country 121
The Eve of Rosh Hashanah 122
I've Already Been Weaned 123
In the Garden, at the White Table 123
From the Book of Esther I Filtered the Sediment 124
So I Went Down to the Ancient Harbor 124
Now the Lifeguards Have All Gone Home 125
Near the Wall of a House 126
From A Great Tranquillity: Questions and Answers (1980)
You Can Rely on Him 126
You Mustn't Show Weakness 127
Lost Objects 128
Forgetting Someone 128
"The Rustle of History's Wings," as They Used to Say Then 128
1978 Reunion of Palmach Veterans at Ma'ayan Harod 129
An Eternal Window 130
There Are Candles That Remember 131
On the Day My Daughter Was Born No One Died 131
All These Make a Dance Rhythm 132
In the Morning It Was Still Night 133
A Child Is Something Else Again 133
When I Have a Stomachache 134
I Feel Just Fine in My Pants 135
Jerusalem Is Full of Used Jews 135
Ecology of Jerusalem 136
In the Old City 136
Tourists 137
An Arab Shepherd Is Searching for His Goat on Mount Zion 138
A Song of Lies on Sabbath Eve 138
The Parents Left the Child 139
Love Is Finished Again 140
End of Summer in the Judean Mountains 140
Relativity 141
Poem Without an End 142
A Great Tranquillity: Questions and Answers 142
From The Hour of Grace (1983)
1924 143
Half-Sized Violin 143
A Pace Like That 144
The Box 145
The Last Word Is the Captain 145
Statistics 146
The Hour of Grace 146
What a Complicated Mess 147
I Lost My Identity Card 148
On Mount Muhraka 148
Summer Begins 149
Hamadiya 150
At the Seashore 150
On Some Other Planet You May Be Right 151
Autumn Rain in Tel Aviv 152
A Flock of Sheep Near the Airport 152
Almost a Love Poem 153
They Are All Dice 153
A Precise Woman 154
Jasmine 154
Kibbutz Gevaram 155
History 156
The Real Hero 156
At the Maritime Museum 157
Try to Remember Some Details 158
A Man in His Life 158
From From Man Thou Art and Unto Man Shalt Thou Return (1985)
My Mother Comes from the Days 159
Now She's Breathing 160
My Mother Died on Shavuot 161
The Body Is the Cause of Love 162
Orchard 162
Late Marriage 163
Inside the Apple 164
North of Beersheba 164
I Guard the Children 165
North of San Francisco 166
Fall in Connecticut 167
Sandals 168
Jerusalem, 1985 169
Evidence 169
The Course of a Life 170
From The Fist, Too, Was Once the Palm of an Open Hand, and Fingers (1989)
What Kind of Man 171
The Greatest Desire 172
Two Disappeared into a House 173
I Know a Man 173
Between 173
Summer Evening in the Jerusalem Mountains 174
At the Beach 175
The Sea and the Shore 176
Autumn Is Near and the Memory of My Parents 176
Yom Kippur 177
Beginning of Autumn in the Hills of Ephraim 178
Ruhama 179
Huleikat-The Third Poem about Dicky 179
The Shore of Ashkelon 180
Fields of Sunflowers 181
First Rain on a Burned Car 181
We Did What We Had To 182
Notes 185
Acknowledgments 191
Index of Titles 193