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Title

Yehuda Amichai, a life of poetry, 1948-1994 / selected and translated by Benjamin and Barbara Harshav.

Author

Amichai, Yehuda.

Publication

New York : HarperCollins Publishers, [1994], ©1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Harshav, Benjamin, 1928-2015.
• Harshav, Barbara, 1940-

Description

xv, 477 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Yehuda Amichai is widely considered to be the most prominent poet of Israel, and certainly the best known Hebrew poet internationally. A Life of Poetry 1948-1994 is an appropriately comprehensive and timely evaluation of the body of work of one of our most valuable poets in any language." "Employing the style and idiom of a post-Modernist - of a twentieth-century artist - and filtering it through the prism of his Israeli and Jewish sensibilities, Amichai's work is cosmopolitan, muscular, and ironic. Resounding with the exhilaration of the human drama - love, loss, death, war, eroticism, and the density of experience in human encounters - it is brought into sharper contrast by the ever-present precariousness of Israeli existence. The burden and legacy of this history, and its impact upon modern, secular society, places Amichai's work within a uniquely Israeli landscape - arid, verdant, cruel, and beautiful - while simultaneously transcending national and religious borders. His language resonates with biblical and sacramental allusion, but his thematic power lies in the depiction of an essential human sensibility." "Translated from the Hebrew by Benjamin and Barbara Harshav, A Life of Poetry contains authoritative retranslations, as well as work never before translated into English. With this volume, Amichai will take his rightful place beside the leading poets of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

Poems. English

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• Amichai, Yehuda > Translations into English

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

• In My Childhood -- My Mother Baked the Whole World for Me -- Both Together and Each Apart -- God Takes Pity on Kindergarten Children -- Autobiography in the Year 1952 -- UN Headquarters in the High Commissioner's Residence in Jerusalem -- I Was Waiting for My Girl and Her Steps Were Absent -- Rain on the Battlefield -- The Smell of Gasoline in my Nose -- And After All That - The Rain -- from Six Poems for Tamar -- IBN Gabirol -- My Father's Death -- Your Life and Death, Father -- Look, Thoughts, and Dreams -- From All the Spaces -- Pinecones on the Tree Above -- Now That the Water Presses Hard -- I Told You It Would Be So - and You Didn't Believe -- from Here We Loved -- God's Hands in the World -- Lullaby 1957 -- God Full of Mercy -- And This Is Your Glory -- When I Returned they Told Me There's No -- Out of Three or Four People in a Room -- Not Like a Cypress -- Half the People of the World -- I Want to Die in My Own Bed -- On My Birthday -- For My Mother -- from At Right Angles -- As for the World -- The Place Where I Never Was -- In the Middle of This Century -- Farewell -- And the Migration of My Parents -- Forecast -- Instructions for Her Voyage -- The Mayor -- A Summer or Its End -- With All the Rigor of Pity -- Do Not Accept -- Somber Spring -- And We Shall Not Get Excited -- Let the Coin Decide -- Here -- Poems to a Girl on the Seashore -- Don't Prepare for Tomorrow -- Elegy on the Lost Child -- Jerusalem 1967 -- My Child Wafts Peace -- All the Generations before Me -- The Time Has Come to Collect Evidence -- With My Mother -- To Gather Something -- I Will Have to Begin -- National Thoughts -- Luxury -- My Father on Passover Eve -- My Son, My Son, My Head, My Head -- Lots of Grates -- A Bedouin Goes North -- Bedouin in Love -- Pity, We Were a Good Invention -- Poems of Resigning -- From Poems on the Shore of Caesarea -- My Mother Once Told Me -- The Anniversary of My Father's Death -- The Heart Is a Corrupt Stage Director -- This Place -- In My Worst Dreams -- I Am Big and Fat -- The Giving of the Torah -- Hirbet Sayid -- Outing with a Woman -- Closing the Jaffa Port -- I Was the Moon -- Hymn to Summer -- In Those Days, in This Time -- White Negress -- My Sleep -- Of a Vanished Kingdom -- We Did It -- My Friend the Philosopher and Hanukah -- To Hurl Haunting Memories -- End of Elul -- How Much Time -- My First Days in New York -- Indian Summer in Princeton -- Poems of Spring in the Appalachian Mountains -- Takis Sinopolus, Greek Poet -- Haydn, Opus 76, Number 5 -- In a Foreign Country -- Three Times I Came to Rome -- Poems along the Hudson River -- Open Closets Are Sad -- People with No Future Love -- In the Room -- The First Rain -- Now in the Din -- They Lied to Us -- Now to Break -- Family -- Release Her -- Rabbi Nakhman of Bratslav -- Tourist -- Poems of Akhziv -- The Travels of Benjamin the Last, of Tudela -- Sleep in Jerusalem -- Instead of Words -- Jews in the Land of Israel -- Birthday -- Jerusalem's Suicide Attempts -- You Will Speak -- Summer Night in the King David Hotel -- A Placenta of Love -- Poems about Repairs to My House -- A Good Time -- Mission -- Season of Recognition -- Wild Peace -- Sharm A-Sheikh -- Hymn to the Lovely Couple Varda and Schimmel -- Poems from Buenos Aires -- Ballad in the Streets of Buenos Aires -- Signs and Evidence in the Orchard of Gan-Hayim -- End of the Archaeological Season in Eyn Gedi -- If Now in the Middle of My Life -- The Death of Assia G. -- Support for My Breathing -- Someplace -- Great Fatigue -- Poems of the Hot Wind -- I Sat in the Happiness -- Poem of Spring -- Games -- To Die, to Be Born -- Gifts of Love -- False Interpretation -- Biblical Meditations -- As It Was -- Akhziv -- from Poems of the Land of Zion and Jerusalem -- Poem -- Love Poem -- I Have Dead People -- Sadness of Eyes and Descriptions of a Voyage -- A Stroll in the Beautiful Gardens of the Valley of the Son of Hinnom -- State of Affairs -- from Elegies on the War Dead -- The Name of the Place "Trieste" -- Ashkelon -- Oleander -- The Synagogue in Firenze -- A Czech Refugee in London -- Dennis Was Very Sick -- Poems of Lies and Beauty -- One -- Three -- Four -- Five -- Six -- Nine -- Eleven -- Twelve -- Thirteen -- Nineteen -- Twenty -- Twenty-One -- Twenty-Two -- Twenty-Nine -- Thirty -- Thirty-One -- Thirty-Two -- Thirty-Three -- Thirty-Four -- Thirty-Five -- Thirty-Six -- Thirty-Seven -- Forty-One -- Forty-Two -- Forty-Three -- Forty-Six -- Fifty-Two -- Fifty-Four -- Fifty-Five -- Fifty-Eight -- Fifty-Nine -- Sixty Three -- Sixty-Four -- Sixty-Six -- Sixty-Eight -- Sixty-Nine -- Seventy -- Seventy-One -- Seventy-Two -- Seventy-Three -- Seventy-Four -- Seventy-Seven -- Eighty -- Forgetting Someone -- Since Then -- An Arab Shepherd Seeks a Kid on Mount Zion -- On the Wide Stairs - Lurking for Happiness -- In the Old City -- The Eternal Mystery -- You Can Rely on Him -- In the Jerusalem Mountains -- Stewardess -- Flowers in a Room -- People in the Dark Always See -- "History's Wings Beating," They Used to Say -- Suflah Spring in the Judean Mountains -- There Are Candles That Remember -- On the Day My Daughter Was Born Not a Single Person Died -- Again, A Love Is Finished -- I Dreamed -- Jerusalem Is Full of Used Jews -- A Girl Goes Out in the Morning Like a Knight -- Peace of Mind, Peace of Mind -- Instead of a Love Poem -- Beautiful Are the Families of Jerusalem -- Jerusalem Ecology -- Tourists -- You Must Not Show Weakness -- Straight from Prejudice -- Two Girls Live in the Old House -- If My Belly Aches -- Love of the Land -- Great Calm: Questions and Answers -- An Hour of Grace -- Among the Stars You May Be Right -- The Real Hero of the Sacrifice of Isaac -- The Same Embroidery, the Same Pattern -- Herbal Tea -- A Political Poem -- The Voyeur -- Mark Them with Signs -- A Man in His Life -- A Modern Life -- The Aged Parents -- 1924 -- Kibbutz Gvar-'Am -- Almost a Love Poem -- The Last Word Is Captain -- What Entanglement in This Small Country -- The Wonderful Baker -- Love of Jerusalem -- The Sweet Voice from the Kibbutz -- A Precise Woman -- Hamadiya, Memory of Bliss -- My Mother's Death and the Lost Battles for the Future of Her Children -- Oh, Ivy Growing -- My Mother on Her Sickbed -- Now She Breathes -- And My Mother from the Times -- My Mother Died on Shavuot -- The Body Is the Cause of Love -- Free -- Now She Descends -- As at Funerals -- I'm in Great Trouble -- Human Bodies -- My Son -- With Her in an Apple -- Memory of Love - Image -- Memory of Love - Terms and Conditions -- Elecampane, Jasmine, Vine, and Oleander -- Memory of Love - Opening the Will -- From Man You Came and to Man You Shall Return -- Jerusalem 1985 -- Itzhak's Last Kit Bag -- Evidence -- Language School -- Eyn Gedi Preserve -- A Rosebush Hangs over the Wall -- Sandals -- North of Beer Sheba -- Dangerous Country -- Late Marriage -- Two Poets in Mexico -- Travel by Train -- Caffe Dante in New York - 1 -- NYU -- Elizabeth Swados -- The Laundry Cellar -- Caffe Dante in New York - 2 -- Caffe Dante in New York - 3 -- North of San Francisco -- At the University of New Orleans -- Tel Gath -- Ruhama -- Huleikat - The Third Poem about Dicky -- The Shore of Ashkelon -- What Did I Learn in the Wars -- Anniversary of Love -- But, We -- Sixty Kilograms of Pure Love -- In the Migration of Peoples -- Two Disappeared in the House -- In the History of Our Love -- In-Between -- I Know a Man -- From Enclosed Jerusalem -- The Soul -- Not Far from Death -- An Old Bus Stop -- Sunflower Fields -- I at the Sea -- And I Return --
• First Resurrection -- Second Resurrection -- Third Resurrection -- Fourth Resurrection -- I Am a Poor Prophet -- Summer Evening at the Window with Psalms -- Summer Rest and Words -- Autumn Is Near and Memory of My Parents -- Little Ruth -- Sheepskin Coat -- Man with Knapsack -- Hymn to a Masseuse -- The Greatest Desire of All -- Deir Ayub, A Heap of Watermelons and the Rest of My Life -- Changes, Mistakes, Loves -- The First Rain on a Burned Car -- Ramatayim -- Deganya -- Hadera -- Beit Guvrin -- What Kind of a Person -- Open Internalized -- Like the Streams in the Negev -- Summer Evening in the Jerusalem Mountains -- Surplus of Flowers in the World -- Throw Pillows -- Yom Kippur -- A Man's Soul -- Life -- At the Seashore -- Museum at Akhziv -- I Want to Confuse the Bible -- My Children -- The Jews -- The Land Knows -- Temporary Poem of My Time -- We Have Done Our Duty -- This Is the Life of Promises -- Gods Come and Go, Prayers Remain Forever (May 1994) -- Yehuda Amichai: A Biographical Note.

ISBN

0060190396 :

LCCN

94007683

OCLC

• 29955078
• ocm29955078

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries