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The fire stays in red : poems : a bilingual edition in Hebrew and English

Title
The fire stays in red : poems : a bilingual edition in Hebrew and English / by Ronny Someck ; translated by Moshe Dor and Barbara Goldberg.
Author
Someck, Ronny.
Publication
Madison, Wisc. : University of Wisconsin Press ; Takoma Park, Md. : Dryad Press, [2002], ©2002.

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Additional Authors
  • Someck, Ronny.
  • Dor, Moshe, 1932-2016.
  • Goldberg, Barbara.
Description
xiii, 131 pages; 24 cm
Subject
Language (note)
  • Hebrew and English on opposite pages.
Contents
  • Jasmine: Poem about Sand-Paper -- 7 Lines about the Wonder of the Yarkon -- Hamasger Street. A Wedding Singer -- Hawadja Bialik -- The Temperature Is Gunpowder -- Tattoo of an Eagle -- Snapshot -- In Response to the Question: When Did Your Peace Begin? -- Poverty Line -- Arab Labor -- Niva -- First Law of the Jungle. Poem for a Soldier Missing in Action -- Poem of Longing -- Solo Arak -- Secret -- Rice Paradise -- Parachute Canopy -- Strand of Hair -- Baghdad, February 1991 -- Poem about Brenner with A.N.'s Shout in Parenthesis -- On the Way to Arad -- The Leopard and the Glass Slipper -- Kiss -- Retort of the Stuttering Boy -- Embroidered Rag. A Poem About Umm Kulthum -- Johnny -- Drummer of the Revolution -- 30 Seconds to Storm the Tit -- Virginity -- Self-Portrait From the Commando -- Pallor in the Face -- Female Soldier in the Desert. A Photo-Novel -- Elegy for a Dead Horse in the Sabrah Refugee Camp -- How to Tell the Age of a Horse: A Love Poem --
  • Like a Cheetah. Nature Poem -- Lion Milk -- Solo -- For Marilyn Monroe -- Bloody Mary -- Ars Poetica or the Difference between Basketball and Table Tennis -- On the Way to Petra -- Nine Lines about a Bedouin Dying of Desert Cancer -- Punctures of History in the Valley of Yehoshafat -- The First Kilometer -- Sonnet of the Landscape's Sleeve -- Movers -- Scarecrow -- The Dead Sea -- From This Distance the Tombstones Look Like a Flock of Storks -- Sonya Burstein's Apple Strudels -- And Her Husband Blurted Out: Buchenwald -- Girl and the Butchershop Window -- Work -- This is the Poem about the Girl Who Asked Me to Write a Poem about Her -- Elegy About a Portion of Paradise -- Sonnet of the Flaming Sword's Birth Chamber -- Splinter -- Punk Poem Beginning with Lines by Chekhov -- The Fire Stays in Red -- The Razor that Slashed the Metaphoric Face of Poetry -- Red Catalogue of the Word Sunset.
ISBN
  • 0299179001 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0299179044 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2002020689
OCLC
  • ocm48965192
  • SCSB-4301658
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries