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Author Wieseltier, Meir.

Title The flower of anarchy : selected poems / Meir Wieseltier ; translated from the Hebrew by Shirley Kaufman, with the author.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003]
©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 150 pages)
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Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Working with the Poet: A Translator's Response; EARLY POEMS (1960-1969); Kingchild; Weather; On Wonders; Ballad; Daddy and Mommy Went to the Movies, Ilana Stays Alone in the Armchair Looking at a Gray Book; I saw three baby-faced Germans; The world is full of the righteous; Abraham; Take a Look at My Rebels; Song of the Last Soldier; Poetry Swallowed; The Famous Peppers of Mrs. Almozlino; Sometimes Macbeth; The Journey of the Great Egyptian Obelisk to the West; I Ask Myself; FROM: Take (1973); Take; Friends; A Request; Remembering; Isaac's Story; Call-Up.
SkywritingAdoshem; Words for Music; FROM: Something Optimistic, the Making of Poems (1976); Passengers; The Secret of Authority; In Camera; Every arm; Sealed in a Bottle; Wives of October; A dull khaki light comes down again; Fruit; March; The Illustrated Bible; A Dream of Death as an Angel; Ecology; FROM: Exit to the Sea (1981); from: Earth Thoughts in Summer Flow; 1 Out of a glutted slumber I rise with a love of words; 3 And history is a ragged uniform, discolored; 5 Good; 8 I gave my dog an old sandal; 9 Not long after sunset; 12 Naive Painting; 13 A woman in black.
16 There are many words I haven't put downLove Poem; Garbage Dump, 2000; Salt on the Wounds of the Land; To Be Continued; Exit to the Sea; The poet dressed up as an angel of God; FROM: Letters and Other Poems (1986); Letter 1; Letter 2; Letter 3; Letter 4; Letter 16; Cities on Their Mounds; Pro & Con; Sonnet: Against Making Blood Speak Out; Conversation with a Radio; Soliloquy of Dada the Cat; FROM: Storage (1995); Output; Cheese; Musée Picasso, or Some Words in Praise of Human Foolishness; Burning Holy Books; from: Windows Near Mallarmé; Live; The Head; Window to the Future.
River in the DesertThe Fowl of the Air; The Flower of Anarchy; Thin Livestock; FROM: Slow Poems (2000); Far from the Flag Parade; from: Poems with a Dog; 1 Bitch/Armchair; 3 Death thought/Dog sprints; Rainy Love; The Man at the Piano; Jerusalem, 3000; The Tel-Aviv Subway; E.P.; In Paradise; On the Seventy-three; A March for Long-Distance Poets; The believer in what words can do; Notes.
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Summary Meir Wieseltier's verbal power, historical awareness, and passionate engagement have placed him in the first rank of contemporary Hebrew poetry. The Flower of Anarchy, a selection of Wieseltier's poems spanning almost forty years, collects in one volume, for the first time, English translations of some of his finest work. Superbly translated by the award-winning American-Israeli poet-translator Shirley Kaufman--who has worked with the poet on these translations for close to thirty years--this book brings together some of the most praised and admired early poems published in several small books d.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language English.
Subject Wieseltier, Meir -- Translations into English.
Wieseltier, Meir.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Jewish.
POETRY -- General.
Languages & Literatures.
Middle Eastern Languages & Literatures.
Juden.
Israel.
Englisch.
Neuhebräisch.
Genre/Form Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Translations.
Added Author Kaufman, Shirley.
Added Title Poems. Selections. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002042317
Other Form: Print version: The flower of anarchy Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003. 0520235525 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2002035364
ISBN 9780520936683 ebook
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