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Threshold / Shirley Kaufman.
Van Pelt Library PS3561.A862 T48 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kaufman, Shirley.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Palestinian Arabs.
- Jerusalem--Poetry.
- Jerusalem.
- Palestinian Arabs--Poetry.
- Jews--Poetry.
- Jews.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 139 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- American poet in Jerusalem writes of physical and metaphoric thresholds of politics, love, art, and aging. Shirley Kaufman has long been a house favorite at Copper Canyon, and we're celebrating her new book with a special price of $12.00. Born in the United States, Shirley Kaufman has lived for the past 20 years in Jerusalem, a city split by cultural and religious fault lines. In direct, sensitive language, Kaufman's poems occupy the shifting border between ordinary life and violence, Palestinian and Jew, young love and aging companionship. They grapple with the meaning of routine, of family, and of life among a daily existence punctured with bombs.
- Contents:
- Prologue: You have to begin 3
- In Jerusalem
- So many zeros 7
- The pines on our street 8
- Our neighbor in charge 10
- All over Rehavia 11
- You can feel the rising 13
- So we got out of Lebanon 15
- And you on my birthday 17
- New translation of Tsvetayeva 19
- Ripple of voices around the bed 21
- The trouble with anger 24
- Black ink black paint 26
- The Floor Keeps Turning 28
- Away
- "Forgetting" he said 33
- The sign on the new bridge 34
- Places I'm not allowed 36
- They are all we are all 38
- The city levitates 40
- Thirty years since I wanted 42
- They've rolled the parchment 44
- The evil has been committed 46
- Unstoppable fury 48
- Jerusalem Again
- And then you were peeling 51
- Waking in bed in the shrill 53
- No rain yet 55
- Because you have everything 57
- Daily ritual 59
- On the wall next to my window 61
- Little love poem 62
- Last fling of sundown 64
- What wants to continue 66
- Rachel's children are playing 68
- I remember when Jesus wept 70
- The weatherman tells us 72
- On clear nights I watch 74
- February 79
- The Emperor of China 80
- Ungaretti's Umbrella 84
- The Small Nouns 86
- Translation 87
- 1. Outlet
- 2. Wind
- 3. Figure out
- 4. Likely
- 5. Put aside
- 6. Nibbling
- 7. Human vessel
- The Lawns of Delhi 93
- Asparagus 94
- Listening 99
- Jump 101
- A Sheet of Foil 102
- The Haunting 104
- Shell-Flowers 105
- Islands 106
- Little Late Marriage Poem 107
- Chartreuse 108
- In the Beginning 111
- The Death of Rachel 112
- Yael 113
- Job's Wife 114
- Unfinished Poem 115
- Ladders 116
- Hubris 117
- After 121
- Immersion 122
- Sanctum 129.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-137) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1556591926
- OCLC:
- 51172088
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