The full pomegranate : poems of Avrom Sutzkever / selected and translated by Richard J. Fein ; introduction by Justin Cammy ; preparation of the Yiddish text by Harry Bochner and David Braun.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sutzkever, Abraham, 1913-2010, author.

Contributor:

Fein, Richard J., 1929- translator.

Cammy, Justin Daniel, writer of introduction.

Bochner, Harry, 1954- editor.

Brown, David, editor.

Series:

Excelsior Editions

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections. English

Language:

English

Yiddish

Subjects (All):

Yiddish poetry--Translations into English.

Yiddish poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xlvi, 270 pages)

Place of Publication:

Albany : Excelsior Editions, an imprint of State University of New York Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English and Yiddish.

Summary:

Yiddish writer Avrom Sutzkever (1913–2010) was described by the New York Times as "the greatest poet of the Holocaust." Born in present-day Belarus, Sutzkever spent his childhood as a war refugee in Siberia, returned to Poland to participate in the interwar flourishing of Yiddish culture, was confined to the Vilna ghetto during the Nazi occupation, escaped to join the Jewish partisans, and settled in the new state of Israel after the war. Personal and political, mystical and national, his body of work, including more than two dozen volumes of poetry, several of stories, and a memoir, demonstrated the ways in which Yiddish creativity simultaneously balanced the imperatives of mourning and revival after the Holocaust. In The Full Pomegranate, Richard J. Fein selects and translates some of Sutzkever's best poems covering the full breadth of his career. Fein's translations appear alongside the original Yiddish, while an introduction by Justin Cammy situates Sutzkever in both historical and literary context.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Note on Selection and Arrangement

Note on Translation

Acknowledgments

Introduction

From Collected Poems, Volume One (1963)

From Collected Poems, Volume Two (1963)

From Square Letters and Magical Signs (1968)

From Ripe Faces (1970)

From The Fiddle Rose (1974)

From Twin Brother (1986)

From The Heir of Rain (1992)

From Shaken Walls (1996)

Sporadic Visitant. . . After Avrom Sutzkever’s last poem in Twin Brother

Afterword

Notes

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438472515

143847251X