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The poetry of Kabbalah : mystical verse from the Jewish tradition / translated and annotated by Peter Cole ; co-edited and with an afterword by Aminadav Dykman.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- The Margellos World Republic of letters
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cabala.
- Jewish religious poetry, Hebrew.
- Mysticism--Poetry.
- Mysticism.
- Piyutim--History and criticism.
- Piyutim.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (540 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, [CT] : Yale University Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This groundbreaking collection presents for the first time in English a substantial body of poetry that emerges directly from the sublime and often startling world of Jewish mysticism. Taking up Gershom Scholem's call to plumb the "tremendous poetic potential" concealed in the Kabbalistic tradition, Peter Cole provides dazzling renderings of work composed on three continents over a period of some fifteen hundred years.In addition to the translations and the texts in their original languages, Cole supplies a lively and insightful introduction, along with accessible commentaries to the poems. Aminadav Dykman adds an elegant afterword that places the work in the context of world literature. As a whole, the collection brings readers into the fascinating force field of Kabbalistic verse, where the building blocks of both language and existence itself are unveiled.Excerpts from The Poetry of Kabbalah have been featured in the Paris Review, Poetry, and Conjunctions."Studded with insight, and written with great verve, this book will become a classic."-Lawrence Fine, author of Physician of the Soul, Healer of the Cosmos
- Contents:
- The Poetry of Kabbalah
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- Poems of the Palaces & Early Liturgical Hymns
- HYMN TO THE HEAVENS
- A MEASURE OF HOLINESS
- AWE AND ADORNMENT
- EACH DAY
- FROM WHOSE BEAUTY THE DEPTHS ARE LIT
- TO RISE ON HIGH
- BLESSED IS THE EYE
- THE PRIEST'S APPEARANCE
- WINDOWS OF WORSHIP
- ANGEL OF FIRE
- FROM THE SKY TO THE HEAVENS' HEAVENS
- KING GIRDED WITH MIGHT
- CREATURES FOUR-SQUARE ABOUT THE THRONE
- RELEASE, PLEASE
- The Book of Creation
- FROM SEFER YETZIRAH
- Al-Andalus & Ashkenaz
- HE DWELLS FOREVER
- ANGELS AMASSING
- I LOVE YOU
- FROM KINGDOM'S CROWN
- TRUE LIFE
- WHERE WILL I FIND YOU
- LORD, [All My Desire]
- A DOVE IN THE DISTANCE
- HYMN OF DIVINE GLORY
- The Kabbalah in Spain
- BEFORE THE WORLD EVER WAS
- PRAYERS FOR THE PROTECTION AND OPENING OF THE HEART
- ON AWAKENING AND DRAWING NEAR
- INCANTATION AGAINST LILITH
- FROM THE BOOK OF THE SIGN
- THE NUT GARDEN
- The Safed Circle (Galilean Kabbalah)
- HYMN TO THE SABBATH
- PEACE BE UPON YOU
- SOUL' S BE LOVED
- HYMNS FOR THE THREE SABBATH MEALS
- WHY, MY DESIRE
- HIDDEN GOD
- TO THE SHEKHINAH
- YOUR KINGDOM'S GLORY
- Extensions East and West
- WHO KISSED ME
- THE MYRTLE'S SCENT
- BAR YOHAI
- IN PRAISE OF THE NAME AND ITS MYSTERY
- JEWISH MUSLIMS/MUSLIM JEWS
- MELISELDA
- I HAVE FOUND BLISS
- THE VALLEY OF ISHMAEL
- ON THE EXTINGUISHING OF THE LIGHTS
- SECRET PLEASURE
- ON THE DESTRUCTION OF THE LAW
- THE GHAZAL OF GOODNESS
- Italian Kabbalah
- THE LIGHT CONCEALED
- YOU READIED ALIGHT
- MESSIAH
- Hasidic Devotion
- SONG OF YOU
- FROM THE TANYA
- The Seeds of Secular Mysticism
- FROM THE POOL
- BRING ME IN UNDER YOUR WING
- NOTES
- AFTERWORD
- Poems in Hebrew and Other Languages
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9786613600820
- 9781280571220
- 1280571225
- 9780300183610
- 0300183615
- OCLC:
- 784958103
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