Yehuda Amichai

by Amichai, Yehuda; Harshav, Benjamin; Harshav, Barbara

ISBN13: 9780060190392

ISBN10: 0060190396

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Pub. Date: 1994-10-01

Publisher(s): HarperCollins

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Yehuda Amichai is widely considered to be the most prominent poet of Israel, and certainly the best known Hebrew poet internationally. A Life of Poetry 1948-1994 is an appropriately comprehensive and timely evaluation of the body of work of one of our most valuable poets in any language.
Employing the style and idiom of a post-Modernist - of a twentieth-century artist - and filtering it through the prism of his Israeli and Jewish sensibilities, Amichai's work is cosmopolitan, muscular, and ironic. Resounding with the exhilaration of the human drama - love, loss, death, war, eroticism, and the density of experience in human encounters - it is brought into sharper contrast by the ever-present precariousness of Israeli existence. The burden and legacy of this history, and its impact upon modern, secular society, places Amichai's work within a uniquely Israeli landscape - arid, verdant, cruel, and beautiful - while simultaneously transcending national and religious borders. His language resonates with biblical and sacramental allusion, but his thematic power lies in the depiction of an essential human sensibility.
Translated from the Hebrew by Benjamin and Barbara Harshav, A Life of Poetry contains authoritative retranslations, as well as work never before translated into English. With this volume, Amichai will take his rightful place beside the leading poets of the twentieth century.

In My Childhood	p. 3
My Mother Baked the Whole World for Me	p. 4
Both Together and Each Apart	p. 5
God Takes Pity on Kindergarten Children	p. 6
Autobiography in the Year 1952	p. 7
UN Headquarters in the High Commissioner's Residence in Jerusalem	p. 8
I Was Waiting for My Girl and Her Steps Were Absent	p. 9
Rain on the Battlefield	p. 10
The Smell of Gasoline in my Nose	p. 11
And After All That - The Rain	p. 12
from Six Poems for Tamar	p. 13
IBN Gabirol	p. 14
My Father's Death	p. 15
Your Life and Death, Father	p. 16
Look, Thoughts, and Dreams	p. 17
From All the Spaces	p. 18
Pinecones on the Tree Above	p. 19
Now That the Water Presses Hard	p. 21
I Told You It Would Be So - and You Didn't Believe	p. 22
from Here We Loved	p. 23
God's Hands in the World	p. 29
Lullaby 1957	p. 30
God Full of Mercy	p. 31
And This Is Your Glory	p. 32
When I Returned they Told Me There's No	p. 33
Out of Three or Four People in a Room	p. 34
Not Like a Cypress	p. 35
Half the People of the World	p. 36
I Want to Die in My Own Bed	p. 37
On My Birthday	p. 38
For My Mother	p. 40
from At Right Angles	p. 41
As for the World	p. 47
The Place Where I Never Was	p. 48
In the Middle of This Century	p. 49
Farewell	p. 50
And the Migration of My Parents	p. 51
Forecast	p. 52
Instructions for Her Voyage	p. 53
The Mayor	p. 54
A Summer or Its End	p. 55
With All the Rigor of Pity	p. 58
Do Not Accept	p. 59
Somber Spring	p. 60
And We Shall Not Get Excited	p. 61
Let the Coin Decide	p. 62
Here	p. 63
Poems to a Girl on the Seashore	p. 64
Don't Prepare for Tomorrow	p. 70
Elegy on the Lost Child	p. 72
Jerusalem 1967	p. 79
My Child Wafts Peace	p. 88
All the Generations before Me	p. 89
The Time Has Come to Collect Evidence	p. 90
With My Mother	p. 91
To Gather Something	p. 92
I Will Have to Begin	p. 93
National Thoughts	p. 94
Luxury	p. 95
My Father on Passover Eve	p. 96
My Son, My Son, My Head, My Head	p. 97
Lots of Grates	p. 98
A Bedouin Goes North	p. 99
Bedouin in Love	p. 100
Pity, We Were a Good Invention	p. 101
Poems of Resigning	p. 102
From Poems on the Shore of Caesarea	p. 104
My Mother Once Told Me	p. 107
The Anniversary of My Father's Death	p. 108
The Heart Is a Corrupt Stage Director	p. 110
This Place	p. 111
In My Worst Dreams	p. 112
I Am Big and Fat	p. 113
The Giving of the Torah	p. 114
Hirbet Sayid	p. 115
Outing with a Woman	p. 116
Closing the Jaffa Port	p. 117
I Was the Moon	p. 118
Hymn to Summer	p. 119
In Those Days, in This Time	p. 120
White Negress	p. 121
My Sleep	p. 122
Of a Vanished Kingdom	p. 123
We Did It	p. 124
My Friend the Philosopher and Hanukah	p. 125
To Hurl Haunting Memories	p. 126
End of Elul	p. 127
How Much Time	p. 128
My First Days in New York	p. 129
Indian Summer in Princeton	p. 130
Poems of Spring in the Appalachian Mountains	p. 131
Takis Sinopolus, Greek Poet	p. 133
Haydn, Opus 76, Number 5	p. 134
In a Foreign Country	p. 135
Three Times I Came to Rome	p. 136
Poems along the Hudson River	p. 137
Open Closets Are Sad	p. 139
People with No Future Love	p. 140
In the Room	p. 141
The First Rain	p. 142
Now in the Din	p. 143
They Lied to Us	p. 144
Now to Break	p. 145
Family	p. 146
Release Her	p. 147
Rabbi Nakhman of Bratslav	p. 148
Tourist	p. 149
Poems of Akhziv	p. 150
The Travels of Benjamin the Last, of Tudela	p. 160
Sleep in Jerusalem	p. 191
Instead of Words	p. 192
Jews in the Land of Israel	p. 193
Birthday	p. 194
Jerusalem's Suicide Attempts	p. 195
You Will Speak	p. 196
Summer Night in the King David Hotel	p. 197
A Placenta of Love	p. 198
Poems about Repairs to My House	p. 199
A Good Time	p. 200
Mission	p. 201
Season of Recognition	p. 202
Wild Peace	p. 203
Sharm A-Sheikh	p. 204
Hymn to the Lovely Couple Varda and Schimmel	p. 206
Poems from Buenos Aires	p. 208
Ballad in the Streets of Buenos Aires	p. 211
Signs and Evidence in the Orchard of Gan-Hayim	p. 213
End of the Archaeological Season in Eyn Gedi	p. 214
If Now in the Middle of My Life	p. 215
The Death of Assia G.	p. 216
Support for My Breathing	p. 217
Someplace	p. 218
Great Fatigue	p. 219
Poems of the Hot Wind	p. 220
I Sat in the Happiness	p. 222
Poem of Spring	p. 223
Games	p. 224
To Die, to Be Born	p. 225
Gifts of Love	p. 226
False Interpretation	p. 227
Biblical Meditations	p. 228
As It Was	p. 229
Akhziv	p. 230
from Poems of the Land of Zion and Jerusalem	p. 237
Poem	p. 244
Love Poem	p. 245
I Have Dead People	p. 246
Sadness of Eyes and Descriptions of a Voyage	p. 247
A Stroll in the Beautiful Gardens of the Valley of the Son of Hinnom	p. 248
State of Affairs	p. 249
from Elegies on the War Dead	p. 250
The Name of the Place "Trieste"	p. 252
Ashkelon	p. 253
Oleander	p. 254
The Synagogue in Firenze	p. 255
A Czech Refugee in London	p. 256
Dennis Was Very Sick	p. 257
Poems of Lies and Beauty	p. 258
One	p. 263
Three	p. 264
Four	p. 265
Five	p. 266
Six	p. 267
Nine	p. 268
Eleven	p. 269
Twelve	p. 270
Thirteen	p. 271
Nineteen	p. 272
Twenty	p. 273
Twenty-One	p. 274
Twenty-Two	p. 275
Twenty-Nine	p. 276
Thirty	p. 277
Thirty-One	p. 278
Thirty-Two	p. 279
Thirty-Three	p. 280
Thirty-Four	p. 281
Thirty-Five	p. 282
Thirty-Six	p. 283
Thirty-Seven	p. 284
Forty-One	p. 285
Forty-Two	p. 286
Forty-Three	p. 287
Forty-Six	p. 288
Fifty-Two	p. 289
Fifty-Four	p. 290
Fifty-Five	p. 291
Fifty-Eight	p. 292
Fifty-Nine	p. 293
Sixty Three	p. 294
Sixty-Four	p. 295
Sixty-Six	p. 296
Sixty-Eight	p. 297
Sixty-Nine	p. 298
Seventy	p. 299
Seventy-One	p. 300
Seventy-Two	p. 301
Seventy-Three	p. 302
Seventy-Four	p. 303
Seventy-Seven	p. 304
Eighty	p. 305
Forgetting Someone	p. 309
Since Then	p. 310
An Arab Shepherd Seeks a Kid on Mount Zion	p. 312
On the Wide Stairs - Lurking for Happiness	p. 313
In the Old City	p. 314
The Eternal Mystery	p. 315
You Can Rely on Him	p. 316
In the Jerusalem Mountains	p. 317
Stewardess	p. 318
Flowers in a Room	p. 319
People in the Dark Always See	p. 320
"History's Wings Beating," They Used to Say	p. 321
Suflah Spring in the Judean Mountains	p. 322
There Are Candles That Remember	p. 323
On the Day My Daughter Was Born Not a Single Person Died	p. 324
Again, A Love Is Finished	p. 325
I Dreamed	p. 326
Jerusalem Is Full of Used Jews	p. 327
A Girl Goes Out in the Morning Like a Knight	p. 328
Peace of Mind, Peace of Mind	p. 329
Instead of a Love Poem	p. 330
Beautiful Are the Families of Jerusalem	p. 331
Jerusalem Ecology	p. 332
Tourists	p. 333
You Must Not Show Weakness	p. 334
Straight from Prejudice	p. 335
Two Girls Live in the Old House	p. 336
If My Belly Aches	p. 337
Love of the Land	p. 338
Great Calm: Questions and Answers	p. 339
An Hour of Grace	p. 343
Among the Stars You May Be Right	p. 344
The Real Hero of the Sacrifice of Isaac	p. 345
The Same Embroidery, the Same Pattern	p. 346
Herbal Tea	p. 347
A Political Poem	p. 348
The Voyeur	p. 349
Mark Them with Signs	p. 350
A Man in His Life	p. 351
A Modern Life	p. 352
The Aged Parents	p. 353
1924	p. 354
Kibbutz Gvar-'Am	p. 355
Almost a Love Poem	p. 356
The Last Word Is Captain	p. 357
What Entanglement in This Small Country	p. 358
The Wonderful Baker	p. 359
Love of Jerusalem	p. 360
The Sweet Voice from the Kibbutz	p. 362
A Precise Woman	p. 363
Hamadiya, Memory of Bliss	p. 364
My Mother's Death and the Lost Battles for the Future of Her Children	p. 367
Oh, Ivy Growing	p. 367
My Mother on Her Sickbed	p. 368
Now She Breathes	p. 368
And My Mother from the Times	p. 369
My Mother Died on Shavuot	p. 369
The Body Is the Cause of Love	p. 370
Free	p. 371
Now She Descends	p. 371
As at Funerals	p. 373
I'm in Great Trouble	p. 374
Human Bodies	p. 375
My Son	p. 376
With Her in an Apple	p. 378
Memory of Love - Image	p. 379
Memory of Love - Terms and Conditions	p. 380
Elecampane, Jasmine, Vine, and Oleander	p. 381
Memory of Love - Opening the Will	p. 383
From Man You Came and to Man You Shall Return	p. 384
Jerusalem 1985	p. 385
Itzhak's Last Kit Bag	p. 386
Evidence	p. 387
Language School	p. 388
Eyn Gedi Preserve	p. 389
A Rosebush Hangs over the Wall	p. 390
Sandals	p. 391
North of Beer Sheba	p. 392
Dangerous Country	p. 393
Late Marriage	p. 394
Two Poets in Mexico	p. 395
Travel by Train	p. 396
Caffe Dante in New York - 1	p. 398
NYU	p. 399
Elizabeth Swados	p. 400
The Laundry Cellar	p. 401
Caffe Dante in New York - 2	p. 402
Caffe Dante in New York - 3	p. 403
North of San Francisco	p. 404
At the University of New Orleans	p. 405
Tel Gath	p. 409
Ruhama	p. 410
Huleikat - The Third Poem about Dicky	p. 410
The Shore of Ashkelon	p. 411
What Did I Learn in the Wars	p. 411
Anniversary of Love	p. 413
But, We	p. 413
Sixty Kilograms of Pure Love	p. 414
In the Migration of Peoples	p. 414
Two Disappeared in the House	p. 415
In the History of Our Love	p. 416
In-Between	p. 416
I Know a Man	p. 417
From Enclosed Jerusalem	p. 418
The Soul	p. 418
Not Far from Death	p. 419
An Old Bus Stop	p. 419
Sunflower Fields	p. 420
I at the Sea	p. 420
And I Return	p. 420
First Resurrection	p. 422
Second Resurrection	p. 422
Third Resurrection	p. 423
Fourth Resurrection	p. 424
I Am a Poor Prophet	p. 425
Summer Evening at the Window with Psalms	p. 427
Summer Rest and Words	p. 428
Autumn Is Near and Memory of My Parents	p. 430
Little Ruth	p. 431
Sheepskin Coat	p. 433
Man with Knapsack	p. 435
Hymn to a Masseuse	p. 436
The Greatest Desire of All	p. 438
Deir Ayub, A Heap of Watermelons and the Rest of My Life	p. 439
Changes, Mistakes, Loves	p. 440
The First Rain on a Burned Car	p. 441
Ramatayim	p. 442
Deganya	p. 443
Hadera	p. 445
Beit Guvrin	p. 446
What Kind of a Person	p. 447
Open Internalized	p. 448
Like the Streams in the Negev	p. 449
Summer Evening in the Jerusalem Mountains	p. 450
Surplus of Flowers in the World	p. 451
Throw Pillows	p. 452
Yom Kippur	p. 453
A Man's Soul	p. 454
Life	p. 455
At the Seashore	p. 456
Museum at Akhziv	p. 457
I Want to Confuse the Bible	p. 459
My Children	p. 461
The Jews	p. 462
The Land Knows	p. 464
Temporary Poem of My Time	p. 465
We Have Done Our Duty	p. 467
This Is the Life of Promises	p. 469
Gods Come and Go, Prayers Remain Forever (May 1994)	p. 472
Index of First Lines	p. 473
Yehuda Amichai: A Biographical Note	p. 479
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