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The fire stays in red : poems / by Ronny Someck ; translated by Moshe Dor and Barbara Goldberg.
Van Pelt Library PJ5054.S65 A23 2002
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Library at the Katz Center - Stacks PJ5054.S65 A23 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Someck, Ronny.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections. English & Hebrew
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Someck, Ronny--Translations into English.
- Someck, Ronny.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 131 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Bilingual edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Madison : University of Wisconsin Press ; Takoma Park, Md. : Dryad Press, [2002]
- Language Note:
- Text in English and Hebrew.
- Summary:
- "My mother dreams in Arabic, I dream in Hebrew," Ronny Someck has written. Born in Iraq and arriving in Israel as a young child, Someck's Sephardi roots still run deep. His poems are hot, crotic, comic, tragic, agape at the wonders of a tear and a tattoo and a snapshot and a bra and a scarecrow. To read his poetry is to ride a runaway horse. Where else can you find Tarzan, Marilyn Monroe and cowboys battling with Rabbi Yehuda Halevi for the hearts and souls of Israelis.
- Contents:
- Jasmine: Poem about Sand-Paper 3
- 7 Lines about the Wonder of the Yarkon 5
- Hamasger Street. A Wedding Singer 7
- Hawadja Bialik 9
- The Temperature Is Gunpowder 11
- Tattoo of an Eagle 12
- Snapshot 15
- In Response to the Question: When Did Your Peace Begin? 17
- Poverty Line 17
- Arab Labor 19
- Niva 21
- First Law of the Jungle. Poem for a Soldier Missing in Action 23
- Poem of Longing 25
- Solo Arak 27
- Secret 31
- Rice Paradise 33
- Parachute Canopy 35
- Strand of Hair 37
- Baghdad, February 1991 39
- Poem about Brenner with A.N.'s Shout in Parenthesis 41
- On the Way to Arad 43
- The Leopard and the Glass Slipper 45
- Kiss 49
- Retort of the Stuttering Boy 51
- Embroidered Rag. A Poem About Umm Kulthum 53
- Johnny 55
- Drummer of the Revolution 57
- 30 Seconds to Storm the Tit 59
- Virginity 61
- Self-Portrait From the Commando 63
- Pallor in the Face 65
- Female Solider in the Desert. A Photo-Novel 67
- Elegy for a Dead Horse in the Sabrah Refugee Camp 69
- How to Tell the Age of a Horse: A Love Poem 71
- Like a Cheetah. Nature Poem 73
- Lion Milk 75
- Solo 77
- For Marilyn Monroe 79
- Bloody Mary 81
- Ars Poetica or the Difference between Basketball and Table Tennis 83
- On the Way to Petra 85
- Nine Lines about a Bedouin Dying of Desert Cancer 87
- Punctures of History in the Valley of Yehoshafat 89
- The First Kilometer 93
- Sonnet of the Landscape's Sleeve 95
- Movers 97
- Scarecrow 99
- The Dead Sea 99
- From This Distance the Tombstones Look Like a Flock of Storks 101
- Sonya Burstein's Apple Strudels 103
- And Her Husband Blurted Out: Buchenwald 105
- Girl and the Butchershop Window 107
- Work 109
- This is the Poem about the Girl Who Asked Me to Write a Poem about Her 111
- Elegy About a Portion of Paradise 113
- Sonnet of the Flaming Sword's Birth Chamber 117
- Splinter 119
- Punk Poem Beginning with Lines by Chekhov 121
- The Fire Stays in Red 123
- The Razor that Slashed the Metaphoric Face of Poetry 125
- Red Catalogue of the Word Sunset 127.
- Notes:
- "A bilingual edition in Hebrew and English."
- ISBN:
- 0299179001
- 0299179044
- OCLC:
- 48965192
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