Research Catalog

Title

The selected poetry of Dan Pagis / translated by Stephen Mitchell ; with an introduction by Robert Alter.

Author

Pagis, Dan

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

Mitchell, Stephen, 1943-

Description

xvi, 153 p.; 21 cm.

Series Statement

Literature of the Middle East

Uniform Title

• Poems. Selections. English
• Literature of the Middle East

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subjects

• Translations
• Pagis, Dan > Translations into English

Genre/Form

Translations

Note

• Originally published: Variable directions. San Francisco : North Point Press, 1989.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Robert Alter -- Autobiography -- Brothers -- The Souvenir -- Ein Leben -- Homily -- Siege -- The Last Ones -- In the Laboratory -- The Readiness -- The Caveman Is Not about to Talk -- A Lesson in Observation -- Spaceship -- Final Examination -- Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car -- An Opening to Satan -- Europe, Late -- The Roll Call -- Testimony -- Instructions for Crossing the Border -- Draft of a Reparations Agreement -- Footprints -- The Tortoise -- A Modest Sum -- Snake -- Tidings -- Bestiary -- Writers -- Tropical Greenhouse -- Information -- Real-Life Story -- Twelve Faces of the Emerald -- A Moment at the Louvre -- Lament for a Master of Style -- Encounters -- Fragments of an Elegy -- Twenty Years in the Valley -- Jason's Grave in Jerusalem -- An Ancient Complaint -- Memorial Evening -- Central Park, Twilight -- The Grand Duke of New York -- Early Winter, Long Island -- The Deceased Writer: Photograph in the Rain.

ISBN

0520205391 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^96014395^

OCLC

• 34583883
• SCSB-11882038

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library