Selected poetry and drama / Lea Goldberg ; poetry translated and introduced by Rachel Tzvia Back ; drama translated by T. Carmi and introduced by M. Megged.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldberg, Leah, 1911-1970.

Standardized Title:

Selections. 2005. English

Language:

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Goldberg, Leah, 1911-1970--Translations into English.

Goldberg, Leah.

Goldberg, Leah, 1911-1970.

Physical Description:

318 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New Milford, Conn. : Toby, 2005.

Language Note:

Translated from the Hebrew.

Summary:

Goldberg (1911-1970) was a seminal writer of the early days of Hebrew Literature. This new translation brings her voice to contemporary readers.

Contents:

About Myself 25

Early Poems (1935-1942) 27

"I saw my God in the cafe" 29

There Are Many Like Me 30

To a Portrait of My Mother 31

Pieta 32

Childhood 33

On Poverty 42

Prayers of Atonement 43

"Your lit-up window lost to the blue nights" 45

Stars of the Nile 46

The world is heavy on our eyelids 47

Ending 48

from On the Flowering (1948) 51

From Songs of the River 53

1 The River Sings to the Stone 53

2 The Tree Sings to the River 54

3 The Moon Sings to the River 55

4 The Girl Sings to the River 56

5 The Blade of Grass Sings to the River 57

Small Poems 58

On The Flowering (1-9) 60

from Love Sonnets: Ahava (1, 3, 4, 7) 69

The Lament of Odysseus 73

From the Book of the Dead 74

"And will they ever come, days of forgiveness and grace" 76

Elul in the Galilee 77

In the Jerusalem Hills 78

from Lightning in the Morning (1955) 83

Lightning Toward Morning 85

At Light's Border 86

from Still Life 88

The Broken Vessel 89

April Khamsin 90

Trees 91

1 Pine 91

2 Eucalyptus 92

3 The Castor-Oil Plant (Jonah's Tree) 93

A Coat of Many Colors 94

Small Poems 95

Poems of the Journey's End 96

from The Love of Teresa De Meun (1, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12) 98

You Are Wondrous 105

A Night Psalm 107

From the Songs of My Beloved Land 108

from Last Words (1959) 111

From the Songs of Zion 113

On Nightmares' Trail 115

Three Days 119

The Lovers on the Beach 121

From My Mother's House 123

Splinters of a Storm 125

Illuminations 128

from With this Night (1964) 131

With this Night 133

The Shortest Journey 134

1 Tel Aviv 1935 134

2 Evening in the Cafe 135

3 A Rainy Autumn Night and a Clear Morning 136

4 Then She Had 137

5 I Walked Then 138

6 The Shortest Journey 139

Songs of a Foreign Woman 140

A Nameless Journey 142

A Look at a Bee 144

From the Songs of Two Autumns 146

And a Third Autumn 148

For One Who Does Not Believe 149

Passed to Another World 151

God Once Commanded Us 153

Portrait of the Poet as an Old Man 154

Far Away 156

1 Even this Landscape 156

2 And Of All the Dead 156

3 It is Not the Sea 157

4 Far Away 157

5 Answer 158

Toward Myself 159

from The Remains of Life (1978) 161

"A young poet suddenly falls silent" 163

"And the poem I did not write" 164

"In everything there is at least an eighth part" 165

from Fragments 166

On the Mount of Olives 167

Jerusalem, Earthly and Heavenly 168

"The clasp of sand and stone" 170

"The day turned" 171

"My entire life summed up in that one moment-" 172

"There were questions" 173

A Hike in the Hills 174

Small Poems 176

"The hills today are shadows of hills" 178

"But it was a wondrous spring" 179

Nightmare 180

"Yes, I have more" 181

"Of all your forgotten ones I" 182

"I'll rise, I will rise" 183

On the Dangers of Smoking 184

The Remains of Life 185

Sickness 187

White Poplar Leaves 188

Tomorrow I will die 190

And this will be the judgment 191

Uncollected Poems 193

Those Who Knew Me Will Remember 195

My hands are pale 196

Khamsin 197

Ne'ilah / Closing 198

1 The Sun Will Turn 198

2 Because the Day Fades 199

3 Open for Us a Gate 200

4 Ne'ilah 201.

ISBN:

1592641113

OCLC:

57637899