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Newly rev. and expanded ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 195 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Literature of the Middle East
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Literature of the Middle East.
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| Note |
Previously published: New York : HarperCollins, 1992. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-190) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Foreword 2013; Foreword 1996; PART ONE: edited and translated; From Now and in Other Days (1955); God Has Pity on Kindergarten Children; The U.N. Headquarters in the High Commissioner's House in Jerusalem; Autobiography, 1952; The Smell of Gasoline Ascends in My Nose; Six Poems for Tamar; Yehuda Ha-Levi; Ibn Gabirol; When I Was a Child; Look: Thoughts and Dreams; From We Loved Here; From Two Hopes Away (1958); Gods Hand in the World; Sort of an Apocalypse; And That Is Your Glory; Of Three or Four in a Room; Not Like a Cypress. |
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Through Two Points Only One Straight Line Can PassHalf the People in the World; For My Birthday; Two Photographs; Poems for a Woman; Children's Procession; Ballad of the Washed Hair; Sonnet from the Voyage; The Visit of the Queen of Sheba; From In a Right Angle: A Cycle of Quatrains; From Poems, 1948-1962; As for the World; In the Middle of This Century; Farewell; Such as Sorrow; Jerusalem; Before; And as Far as Abu Ghosh; You Too Got Tired; The Place Where We Are Right; Mayor; Resurrection; From Summer or Its End; In the Full Severity of Mercy; Too Many; Poem for Arbor Day. |
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Jacob and the AngelHere; Elegy on an Abandoned Village; The Elegy on the Lost Child; From Now in the Storm, Poems 1963-1968; Jerusalem, 1967; The Bull Returns; A Luxury; To Bake the Bread of Yearning; National Thoughts; A Pity. We Were Such a Good Invention; Elegy; Threading; Now in the Storm; Travels of the Last Benjamin of Tudela; PART TWO: edited and translated; From Not for the Sake of Remembering (1971); Jews in the Land of Israel; Wildpeace; The Way It Was; Instead of Words; Gifts of Love; Ballad in the Streets of Buenos Aires; Psalm. |
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From Behind All This a Great Happiness Is Hiding (1976)Seven Laments for the War-Dead; Like the Inner Wall of a House; Love Song; I've Grown Very Hairy; A Dog After Love; A Bride Without a Dowry; The Sweet Breakdowns of Abigail; To a Convert; My Father in a White Space Suit; A Letter of Recommendation; On the Day I Left; A Letter; In a Leap Year; A Quiet Joy; A Mutual Lullaby; From Songs of Zion the Beautiful; From Time (1978); Songs of Continuity; At the Monastery of Latroun; When I Was Young, the Whole Country Was Young; I Walked Past a House Where I Lived Once; To My Love, Combing Her Hair. |
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The Diameter of the BombWhen I Banged My Head on the Door; You Carry the Weight of Heavy Buttocks; Advice for Good Love; You Are So Small and Slight in the Rain; A Man Like That on a Bald Mountain in Jerusalem; When a Man's Far Away from His Country; The Eve of Rosh Hashanah; I've Already Been Weaned; In the Garden, at the White Table; From the Book of Esther I Filtered the Sediment; So I Went Down to the Ancient Harbor; Now the Lifeguards Have All Gone Home; Near the Wall of a House; From A Great Tranquillity: Questions and Answers (1980); You Can Rely on Him; You Mustn't Show Weakness. |
| Summary |
Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) was Israel's most popular poet, as well as a literary figure of international reputation. In this collection, renowned translators Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell have selected Amichai's most beloved poems, including forty poems from his later work. A new foreword by C.K. Williams, written especially for this edition, addresses Amichai's enduring legacy and sets his poetry in the context of the new millennium. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Amichai, Yehuda -- Translations into English.
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Amichai, Yehuda. |
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Amichai, Yehuda. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Translations.
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Poetry.
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Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Bloch, Chana, 1940-2017.
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Mitchell, Stephen, 1943-
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85369413
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Amichai, Yehuda. Poems. English. Selections. Selected poetry of Yehuda Amichai. Newly rev. and expanded ed. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013 (DLC) 96018580 |
| ISBN |
9780520954441 (electronic book) |
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0520954440 (electronic book) |
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0520205383 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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9780520205383 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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0520275837 |
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9780520275836 |
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