Poets on the edge : an anthology of contemporary Hebrew poetry / selected and edited by Tsipi Keller ; introduction by Aminadav Dykman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Keller, Tsipi.

Series:

SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture.

SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Israeli poetry--Translations into English.

Israeli poetry.

Israeli literature.

Physical Description:

xxxv, 339 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Selections from twenty-seven Hebrew poets, many of whose poems appear here in English for the first time.

Contents:

Intro

POETS ON THE EDGE

CONTENTS

Preface

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

YEHUDA AMICHAI (1924-2000)

I Was Not One of the Six Million.And What Is the Span of My Life?Open Shut Open

The Precision of Pain and the Blurring of Bliss: A Touch of Yearning in Everything

My Parents' Motel

The Jewish Time Bomb

T. CARMI (1925-1994)

And Until When?

If It So Pleases

Nightwatch

A Time for Everything

Monologue of the Deserted (II)

In Memory of Dan Pagis (1930-1986)

Monologue in the Twilight of His Life

Lonely Woman's Monologue

Chess at the Seashore

An Explosion in Jerusalem

Mortifi cation of the Soul

The Mouth

From the Diary of a Divorcé

DAN PAGIS (1930-1986)

Tempt the Devil

Ein Leben

Wall Calendar

The End of Winter

Memorial Night

A Linguistic Problem

Diagnosis

Anecdote

Testimony

Browsing through the Album

Houses

NATAN ZACH (b. 1930)

A Belated Poem

To Rise from Ashes

Self-Portrait at Night

Meantime

As Agreed

Three Poems That Weren't Written

Widow

Hayuta

Comrade Poet

A Small Error in the Machine

Goodbye Berlin

Confession: Gentle

And Then We Had

SHIN SHIFRA (b. 1931)

That Made Me Woman

The Spider of Sin

On Rain

Conceit

Lie

Father

A Stranger

In This Split Second

Sabbath Prayer

Summer

This Evening

Ecclesiastes

Goat

Moonstruck

Dove

Vegetarian

Shame

A Woman Who Practices How to Live

ISRAEL HAR (b. 1932)

Morning in a Foreign Place

Grave in the Sun

A Cradle Story

A Sour Pickle the Angel of Death

Dust Instead of Glory

Australian Story

Pauper's Talk

And Tomorrow I Too to Die Like This

DAVID AVIDAN (1934-1995)

The Stain Remained on the Wall

Housing

Incident

Interim Summation

Power of Attorney

Personal Problems

Dance Music.

Will Power

Safe Distance

Last-Last

Experiments in Hysterics

DAHLIA RAVIKOVITCH (1936-2005)

An Exceptional Autumn

An Attempt to Express an Opinion

On Life and on Death

Omens

The Cat

Ready Alert

Lying Upon the Water

But She Had a Son

Grand Days Have Gone by Her

A Mother Goes About

The Tale about the Arab Who Died in the Fire

Lullaby

Train of Thought

Rina Slavin

The Greenness of Leaves

A Private History

A Beetle's Life

ASHER REICH (b. 1937)

The History of My Heart

Fragments

New York: First Swim

New York: Second Swim

Requiem to a Dog in the Rain

Sights

Mud

Nights

Mornings

The Music of the Cosmos

A Recurring Memory

Fence

Photograph

A Different Sensation

Odors

HEDVA HARECHAVI (b. 1941)

Tonight I Saw

When She Goes Out Alone

Imagine, Carving the Sky

When the Music Subsided

Like Back Then When I Was Escorted

Like in the Passing Year

Like a Binging Preying Beast

A Very Cheerful Girl

Go, Go Wherever You Go, But Go

Already Night, Already Day

For Ruth

Here Everything

NURIT ZARHI (b. 1941)

Baby Blues

The Marked Ship

Convincing Herself She's a Picture

Lightly

MEIR WIESELTIER (b. 1941)

A Naive Painting

To Be Continued

Condolences

A Moving Electric Message

Only in Hebrew

My Wisdom

Cheese

The Bible in Pictures II

Burning Holy Books

The 19th Century: Nohant, June '76

The Lost Uncles

The Fowl of the Air

The Flower of Anarchy

Not a Poem

A Childish Farewell Song to a Prime Minister

The Wheel of the Century

RUTH BLUMERT (b. 1943)

Antiques

The Combination

In Time

Entropy

Chances

Breaks

The Departure from the Garden of Eden

Jerusalem, Bus #18, 1986

Waves of Love

Silent Film

Letter

Additional Dimensions.

Metamorphosis

Morning

Lost in the Alleys of the Flat

YONA WALLACH (1944-1985)

All the Trees

House Said the House

Come to Me Like a Capitalist

Tuvia

Sleep with Me Like a Journalist

Come to Me Like a Jew

Let's Make a Little Philosophy

All At Once Everything Seems Dear

Woman Becomes Tree

When You Come Lie with Me Come Like My Father

RAQUEL CHALFI (D.O.B. omitted as per Chalfi 's request)

Travelling to Jerusalem on a Moon Night

Hair of Night

The Water Queen of Jerusalem

Reckless Love

I Drew My End Near

Sitting in the Wall

Monologue of the Witch Impregnated by the Devil

And the Whiteness Grew Stark

Elegy for a Friend Who Lost Her Mind

A Concealed Passenger

Blues in a Jar

German Boot

MORDECHAI GELDMAN (b. 1946)

Friendly Dragon

Porno 2

Porno 3

The Hottentot Venus (Porno 7)

Holy Ground

Dolinger

Tonight I Yield

I Won't Travel This Summer

Abused Neighbor

Yes

Why a Frog

Almost Flowers

RUTH RAMOT (b. 1946)

Blue Prince

They Assault Me the Flowers

The Scent of Wind

Painting

Toward Evening

Hot in the Corner Café

Arithmetic

Time-Saturated

Love Song

Room Number Forty

Nuns

AGI MISHOL (b. 1947)

So Overbearing Had Become

It Seems Miraculous to Her

Turning to Rest in Sappho's Poems

Afternoon Nap

The Interior Plain

Revelation

Like a Bird Tagged

In Her Bed

The Sacred Cow of Hardship

The Irritating Manner in Which I Exist in Your Fancy

From the Depth I Called Hey

When Soft Angel Plumage

Morning and She Pees

Estate

Woman with Pitchfork

Nocturnal I

Nocturnal II

Shaheeda

DAN ARMON (b. 1948)

The Squash Watchman

The Apple the Cucumber and the Plum

Midas of Sugar

Stairwell

Play in the Kitchen

Eight Short Ones

Baking

Fire

Candle.

Song of the Valley

Travel

YITZHAK LAOR (b. 1948)

A Note

Silhouette

Sleeping in Another Place

Poetry

Gouging

Sweat

The Narrator's Death

MAYA BEJERANO (b. 1949)

Data Processing #10

Data Processing #12

Data Processing #14

Lust

Don't Stop the Motion

Passion-Dress

The Hands of Autumn

Pecan Leaves

RONNY SOMECK (b. 1951)

Dog After Dog

Greek Music

A Soldier in the Desert. A Romance in Photos

Johnny

From a Distance the Tombstones Look Like a Flock of Storks

Handcuffs. Street Poem

Poverty Line

Jasmine. A Poem on Sandpaper

Autumn. A French Movie

Tear Comptroller Report

Thirty Seconds to Charge the Nipple

Tractors

Lions' Milk

Poem to a Girl Already Born

In Answer to a Question: When Did Your Peace Begin?

A Pound of Child

Blues on the Life That Was Almost Mine

Rice Paradise

HAVA PINHAS-COHEN (b. 1955)

Explicitly Named

On the Eve of the Holiday

Fear

Variable Texture

Boundaries

Time

Pietà

The Way to the River

A Hand Empty of Body

AMIR OR (b. 1956)

A Pint of Beer

From the White Dictionary

No Trail Markers

Synopsis

Immortal

Poem

TAMIR GREENBERG (b. 1959)

Ode

Son

Dusk

Elegy

My Grandma Rachel Age Fifteen

Annabel Lee

Poetics 1

Poetics 2

Poetics 3

Journey 1

Journey 2

SHARRON HASS (b. 1966)

Our Life Is the Life of Beasts

To the Fox

The Stranger

The Flutist

The Great Illusion

I Stand in the Circle and Look Around Me

Afternoon Slumber

Smooth Boys

The Sun's Mooring

The Girl Fumbles

Beyond the Forest

AFTERWORD: The Poems of Irit Katzir

Sylvia, Sylvia

My Fancy Is an Island

Hell and Back

If I Were a Poet

Do You Know

Captive of the Image

I Saw You

I Bemoan

Why Did You Come

Ailing But Not Ill

I Wanted.

When You Spread Your Hands

Every Sleep

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

INDEX OF TITLES AND FIRST LINES

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bio-bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780791477144

0791477142

9781435675124

1435675126

OCLC:

272404399