The poetry of Yehuda Amichai / edited by Robert Alter

Author:: Amichai, Yehuda
Uniform Title:: Poems. Selections. English
Published:: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Edition:: First edtion.
Physical Description:: xxiv, 551 pages ; 24 cm
Additional Creators:: Alter, Robert

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Translated from the Hebrew.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: When I Was a Child / Robert Alter -- My Mother Baked the Whole World for Me / Robert Alter -- The Two of Us Together and Each of Us Alone / Robert Alter -- God Takes Pity on Kindergarten Children / Robert Alter -- Autobiography in the Year 1952 / Robert Alter -- I Waited for My Girl and Her Steps Were Not There / Robert Alter -- Two Poems About the First Battles / Robert Alter -- Rain Falls on the Faces of My Friends / Robert Alter -- The Smell of Gasoline in My Nose / Robert Alter -- Six Poems for Tamar / Robert Alter -- Yehuda Ha-Levi / Robert Alter -- Ibn Gabirol / Robert Alter -- My Father / Robert Alter -- From All the Spaces Between Times / Robert Alter -- But Now See How Exaggerated / Robert Alter -- Now That the Water Presses Hard / Robert Alter -- A Military Operation / Robert Alter -- God's Hand in the World / Robert Alter -- A Corpse in the Field / Robert Alter -- God Full of Mercy / Robert Alter -- Sort of an Apocalypse / Robert Alter -- And That Is Your Glory / Robert Alter -- Of Three or Four in a Room / Robert Alter -- Not Like a Cypress / Robert Alter -- Through Two Points Only One Straight Line Can Pass / Robert Alter -- Half the People in the World / Robert Alter -- I Want to Die in My Bed / Robert Alter -- To the Mother / Robert Alter -- The Ones Who Blew Up Houses / Robert Alter -- Poet / Robert Alter -- King Saul and I / Robert Alter -- Ballad of the Long Hair and the Short Hair / Robert Alter -- The Visit of the Queen of Sheba / Robert Alter -- from The Right Angle / Robert Alter -- As for the World / Robert Alter -- In the Middle of This Century / Robert Alter -- Farewell / Robert Alter -- My Parents' Migration / Robert Alter -- Jerusalem / Robert Alter -- It's Been a While Since They Asked / Robert Alter -- And Till Abu Gosh / Robert Alter -- Street / Robert Alter -- A House Toward Evening / Robert Alter -- Laundry / Robert Alter -- The Place Where We Are Right / Robert Alter -- Mayor / Robert Alter -- Resurrection / Robert Alter -- The Hair Dried Last / Robert Alter -- Like Our Bodies' Imprint / Robert Alter -- If with a Bitter Mouth / Robert Alter -- During Our Love Houses Were Finished / Robert Alter -- It Was Summer, or Its End / Robert Alter -- Once More / Robert Alter -- To the Full Severity of Compassion / Robert Alter -- Jacob and the Angel / Robert Alter -- And Let Us Not Get Excited / Robert Alter -- But We Must Praise / Robert Alter -- Jerusalem, 1967 / Robert Alter -- My Child Has the Fragrance of Peace / Robert Alter -- All the Generations Before Me / Robert Alter -- The Time Has Come to Collect Evidence / Robert Alter -- With My Mother / Robert Alter -- Bitter and Brusque / Robert Alter -- My Father, My King / Robert Alter -- The Bull Returns / Robert Alter -- Poem in the Orange Grove / Robert Alter -- God's Fate / Robert Alter -- I Am Invited to Life / Robert Alter -- I Am a Living Man / Robert Alter -- Capital Crime and Ashes / Robert Alter -- Lullaby / Robert Alter -- I Am Their Last / Robert Alter -- A Pity, We Were Such a Good Invention / Robert Alter -- Hike with a Woman / Robert Alter -- Praise of Summer / Robert Alter -- We Did It / Robert Alter -- Red Bride / Robert Alter -- The Travels of the Last Benjamin of Tudela / Robert Alter -- Takis Sinopolus, Greek Poet / Robert Alter -- Via Appia Antica / Robert Alter -- My Non-Credo / Robert Alter -- Three Times I Came to Rome / Robert Alter -- If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem / Robert Alter -- First Rain / Robert Alter -- Now in the Uproar / Robert Alter -- Spy / Robert Alter -- They Fooled Us / Robert Alter -- To Break Up Now / Robert Alter -- Poems of Akhziv / Robert Alter -- Instead of Words / Robert Alter -- Jews in the Land of Israel / Robert Alter -- Jerusalem's Suicide Attempts / Robert Alter -- A Tourist in Jerusalem / Robert Alter -- A Poem on the Renovation of My House / Robert Alter -- Love in the Afternoon Before Sabbath / Robert Alter -- Three Commentaries / Robert Alter -- Abandoned House / Robert Alter -- Wildpeace / Robert Alter -- Leah Goldberg Died / Robert Alter -- We Lay Exposed and Equal / Robert Alter -- Not for the Sake of Remembering / Robert Alter -- End of the Archaeological Season in Eyn Gedi / Robert Alter -- Poems in Jericho / Robert Alter -- Poems of the Hot Wind / Robert Alter -- In the Morning I Stand by Your Bed / Robert Alter -- Try Again / Robert Alter -- The Way It Was / Robert Alter -- Akhziv / Robert Alter -- from Songs of Zion the Beautiful / Robert Alter -- I've Grown Very Hairy / Robert Alter -- A Poem on God's Ways / Robert Alter -- Love Song / Robert Alter -- I Am Tired / Robert Alter -- Empty Remembering / Robert Alter -- When a Man Is Left / Robert Alter -- A Great War Is Being Fought / Robert Alter -- Seven Laments for the War-Dead / Robert Alter -- Herodion / Robert Alter -- Akhziv 1973 / Robert Alter -- The Synagogue in Florence / Robert Alter -- The Synagogue in the Venetian Ghetto / Robert Alter -- A Prophecy Returns / Robert Alter -- To a Convert / Robert Alter -- 1 / Robert Alter -- 3 / Robert Alter -- 5 / Robert Alter -- 9 / Robert Alter -- 10 / Robert Alter -- 13 / Robert Alter -- 15 / Robert Alter -- 17 / Robert Alter -- 18 / Robert Alter -- 19 / Robert Alter -- 20 / Robert Alter -- 24 / Robert Alter -- 26 / Robert Alter -- 27 / Robert Alter -- 31 / Robert Alter -- 34 / Robert Alter -- 41 / Robert Alter -- 43 / Robert Alter -- 46 / Robert Alter -- 48 / Robert Alter -- 49 / Robert Alter -- 52 / Robert Alter -- 62 / Robert Alter -- 63 / Robert Alter -- 67 / Robert Alter -- 68 / Robert Alter -- 69 / Robert Alter -- 71 / Robert Alter -- 72 / Robert Alter -- 74. / Robert Alter -- 75 / Robert Alter -- 77 / Robert Alter -- 78 / Robert Alter -- 79 / Robert Alter -- 80 / Robert Alter -- The Doors Are Closed / Robert Alter -- An Arab Shepherd Is Searching for His Goat on Mount Zion / Robert Alter -- Lying in Wait for Happiness / Robert Alter -- The Eternal Mystery / Robert Alter -- Rain in a Foreign Land / Robert Alter -- Air Hostess / Robert Alter -- I Don't Know If History Returns / Robert Alter -- A Child Is Something Else Again / Robert Alter -- People in the Dark Always See / Robert Alter -- The Rustle of History's Wings, as They Said Then / Robert Alter -- A Café in the Old City / Robert Alter -- A Tourist / Robert Alter -- Join Me on My Last Way / Robert Alter -- Return from Ein Gedi / Robert Alter -- A Woman Like That / Robert Alter -- I Dreamed a Dream / Robert Alter -- Ballad on the Changing Room / Robert Alter -- Jerusalem Is Full of Used Jews / Robert Alter -- For Ever and Ever, Sweet Distortions / Robert Alter -- Song of Love and Pain / Robert Alter -- A Young Girl Goes Out in the Morning, Like a Knight / Robert Alter -- Eyes / Robert Alter -- A Gymnastics Teacher from Petah Tikva / Robert Alter -- Peace of Mind, Peace and Mind / Robert Alter -- In the Morning It Was Still Night / Robert Alter -- Ecology of Jerusalem / Robert Alter -- Tourists / Robert Alter -- We Traveled to a Sleep Far from Us / Robert Alter -- Love of the Land / Robert Alter -- Straight from Your Prejudice / Robert Alter -- Infinite Poem / Robert Alter -- End of Summer in the Mountains of Judea / Robert Alter -- A Great Tranquillity: Questions and Answers / Robert Alter -- On Some Other Planet You May Be Right / Robert Alter -- The Scent of the Orange Groves / Robert Alter -- Patisserie Josef / Robert Alter -- Everyone Needs an Abandoned Garden in His Life / Robert Alter -- The Real Hero / Robert Alter -- The Same Embroidery, the Same Pattern / Robert Alter -- In the Hotel / Robert Alter -- Herbal Tea / Robert Alter -- Everyone Sometimes Needs a Mirror / Robert Alter -- Those Were Days of Grace / Robert Alter -- Try to Remember Some Details / Robert Alter -- God, My Insulation Is Gone / Robert Alter -- Four Poems on War and Peace / Robert Alter -- A Man in His Life / Robert Alter -- And the Child Is No More / Robert Alter -- An Attack of Longing / Robert Alter -- A Man Marked for Death / Robert Alter -- My Wild Children / Robert Alter -- The Inn of the Sun / Robert Alter -- Miracles / Robert Alter -- What a Complicated Mess / Robert Alter -- Eye Virgin / Robert Alter -- A Precise Woman / Robert Alter -- At the Maritime Museum / Robert Alter -- Hamadiya / Robert Alter -- I See the Faces of Many Others / Robert Alter -- Almost Rain / Robert Alter -- The Box / Robert Alter -- My Mother on Her Sickbed / Robert Alter -- Now She's Breathing / Robert Alter -- My Mother Died on Shavuot / Robert Alter -- Now She Goes Down / Robert Alter -- The One and Only Door / Robert Alter -- First Yahrzeit / Robert Alter -- I'm in Big Trouble / Robert Alter -- The Great Show That Is Called the Future / Robert Alter -- My Little Girl Looks / Robert Alter -- End of the School Year in Hadasim / Robert Alter -- Inside the Apple / Robert Alter -- Memory of Love[—]Opening the Will / Robert Alter -- From Man You Are and to Man You Shall Return / Robert Alter -- Evidence / Robert Alter -- Remembrance of Love: What Will Be / Robert Alter -- A Rosebush Hangs over the Wall / Robert Alter -- North of Beersheba / Robert Alter -- The Course of a Life / Robert Alter -- Atlit / Robert Alter -- End of Summer in the Sharon / Robert Alter -- Late Marriage / Robert Alter -- Two Poets in Mexico / Robert Alter -- At the Swimming Pool / Robert Alter -- North of San Francisco / Robert Alter -- Ruhama / Robert Alter -- Huleikat[—]the Third Poem About Dicky / Robert Alter -- What I Learned in the Wars / Robert Alter -- But We / Robert Alter -- Sixty Kilos of Pure Love / Robert Alter -- A Lit Window, the Dark Is with Me / Robert Alter -- Sorrow and Joy / Robert Alter -- Between / Robert Alter -- Four Resurrections on Emek Rephaim Street / Robert Alter -- I Am a Penniless Prophet / Robert Alter -- Summer Evening at the Window with Psalms / Robert Alter -- Summer Rest and Words / Robert Alter -- Autumn Is Near and the Memory of My Parents / Robert Alter -- Man with Knapsack / Robert Alter 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Contents note continued: The Greatest Desire / Robert Alter -- First Rain on a Burned Car / Robert Alter -- With a Suitcase in My Hand in a Foreign Land / Robert Alter -- What Kind of Man / Robert Alter -- Summer Evening in the Jerusalem Mountains / Robert Alter -- Lachish Region / Robert Alter -- Equality / Robert Alter -- That's How It Is Now / Robert Alter -- Life / Robert Alter -- Beginning of Autumn in the Hills of Ephraim / Robert Alter -- The Akhziv Museum / Robert Alter -- I Want to Mix Up the Bible / Robert Alter -- The Land Knows / Robert Alter -- Gods Change, Prayers Are Here to Stay / Robert Alter -- Once I Wrote Now and in Other Days: Thus Glory Passes, Thus Pass the Psalms / Robert Alter -- The Bible and You, the Bible and You, and Other Midrashim / Robert Alter -- I Foretell the Days of Yore / Robert Alter -- David, King of Israel, Is Alive: Thou Art the Man / Robert Alter -- My Parents' Lodging Place / Robert Alter -- What Has Always Been / Robert Alter -- Israeli Travel: Otherness Is All, Otherness Is Love / Robert Alter -- Evening Promenade on Valley of the Ghosts Street / Robert Alter -- Summer and the Far End of Prophecy / Robert Alter -- Houses (Plural); Love (Singular) / Robert Alter -- The Language of Love and Tea with Roasted Almonds / Robert Alter -- The Precision of Pain and the Blurriness of Joy: The Touch of Longing Is Everywhere / Robert Alter -- In My Life, on My Life / Robert Alter -- Jewish Travel: Change Is God and Death Is His Prophet / Robert Alter -- I Wasn't One of the Six Million: And What Is My Life Span? Open Closed Open / Robert Alter -- Names, Names, in Other Days and in Our Time / Robert Alter -- Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Why Jerusalem? / Robert Alter -- Conferences, Conferences: Malignant Words, Benign Speech / Robert Alter -- My Son Was Drafted / Robert Alter -- Autumn, Love, Commercials / Robert Alter -- And Who Will Remember the Rememberers? / Robert Alter -- The Jewish Time Bomb / Robert Alter.

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ISBN:

9780374235253 (hardback)
0374235252 (hardback)

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Includes index.

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