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In the illuminated dark : selected poems of Tuvia Ruebner / translated and introduced by Rachel Tzvia Back.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ruebner, Tuvia, 1924-2019.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ruebner, Tuvia, 1924-2019--Translations into English.
- Ruebner, Tuvia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (396 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Loss defines the crossbeams and chronicles of Tuvia Ruebner's life.Born in 1924 into a semi-secular Jewish family in Slovakia, Ruebner was also born into the catastrophe that would follow-the extermination of European Jewry and of his own family in the Holocaust.Hitler became chancellor of Germany on Ruebner's ninth birthday.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Translating the Poetry of Tuvia Ruebner:a Praxis & Poetics of Paradox
- A Note on Organization
- Part I. Testimony
- Testimony
- [Like an echoless voice]
- Among These Mountains
- [In the air that no longer flows]
- Oblivion
- My Little Sister
- Voices
- [Just the days and the doves]
- This Night
- Children
- Father and Infant
- A Family Song
- My Sister
- Old King David
- Part II. As Long As
- [When the statues started moving]
- There, I Said
- Someone Will Say
- She Was
- From the Shadow in My Eyes
- The Sword
- Let Me See Your Face
- Fish
- Distance Yourself, Don't
- Burial
- Awakening
- Awakening (2)
- [Reaching out into the world like a slave clutching]
- Go, If You Can
- [The song of the frozen bird of the night.]
- [As long as you say]
- Part III. The Battles of the Night Left Behind
- The Battles of the Night Left Behind
- The Mother's Face in the Palm of Her Hands
- This City [Jerusalem]
- Moon and Stars That You Created
- Summer
- The Last Desert
- Rondanini Pietà
- 1983
- Farewell from a Friend
- Part IV. A Graven and A Molten Image
- The Fall
- Why
- The Commander
- The Youths
- The Smile
- The Gravestone
- Face
- A Painting and a Conversation
- Horse and his Rider
- The Letter
- Paul Klee's Angels: Eight Drawings and One Watercolor
- Angelus Novus
- Still Life
- The Color of Black Waters
- The Memory
- The Tower of Babel (1)
- The Tower of Babel (2)
- The Tower of Babel (3)
- The Last Supper
- Descent from the Cross
- Memory of a Woman in the Egyptian Wing
- Part V. Postcards From
- Far Away
- A Postcard from Pressburg-Bratislava
- A Postcard from Shastin: Autumn Fires
- A Postcard from Budapest
- A Postcard from London
- A Postcard from Tel Aviv
- A Postcard from the Hebron Region
- A Postcard from Vienna.
- A Postcard from Jerusalem
- A Postcard from Sienna
- Draft of an Impossible Postcard
- Transformations
- Part VI. How Do We End That Which Has No End
- Victim, Again
- Voices (2)
- Still Afraid?
- Audrey's Birds
- Man with a House
- It's Been Years
- Footnotes to the Book of Job
- One Plague and Another
- A Question
- Part VII. History
- [My father was murdered.]
- My Father
- My Mother
- Moonlit Night
- Photograph
- Soldiers' Memorial Day
- History
- After
- But This Light
- Guide for the Young Poet
- NotPoem
- [Erase your traces]
- Part VIII. Belated Beauty
- Belated Beauty
- On the Road to Tivon
- Perfection
- Olympics
- About Time
- All This Suffering
- Yosl, Yosl
- Moonlit Night (2)
- Chimes
- Giacometti: Walking Man
- The Old Man and Beauty
- Last Day at the North Sea
- Poem
- Part IX. But What Would We Do Without Poems
- One Cannot
- Poetry's Soliloquy
- To the Moon
- Not Every Day
- Memorial
- A Postcard from There: Almost a Conversation
- Black & White Photograph, Summer 1939
- I Thought I Wouldn't Write Even One More Line on Death But It Was Stronger Than Me
- Hebrew, My Love
- Before Picasso's Weeping Woman
- In My Old Age
- Wonder
- Part X. Last Ones
- A Wondrous World
- To My Friend
- The Crows Want
- Brueghel: The Hunters in the Snow
- A Meeting in Venice
- Avraham
- Father
- Untitled
- Abandoned
- He
- If
- The Mother of My Daughter
- What Joy
- With Day Breaking
- After Beckett
- Notes
- Chronology of Tuvia Ruebner
- Books by Tuvia Ruebner
- Index of Poem Titles
- Books by Rachel Tzvia Back.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8229-8048-7
- OCLC:
- 889314746
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