The Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai
- Berkerley : University of California Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (218 pages)
- Literature of the Middle East .
Lost Objects.
Includes bibliographies and index.
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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
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.