Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai

Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) is widely considered the greatest contemporary Israeli poet, and a pioneering stylist in modern Hebrew. C.K. Williams is a poet, translator, and critic, and winner of the Pulizter Prize for Poetry for Repair (1999). His most recent collection is Writers Writing Dying (2012). Chana Bloch's many books include The Song of Songs: A New Translation and The Windows: New and Selected Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch. Stephen Mitchell's numerous translations include The Book of Job, A Book of Psalms, and Genesis.

"An ideal choice of the poet." -- Benjamin Ivry Forward Newspaper

• Foreword 2013 by C. K. WilliamsForeword 1996 by Chana BlochPART ONEedited and translated by Stephen MitchellFrom Now and in Other Days (1955)God Has Pity on Kindergarten ChildrenThe U.N. Headquarters in the High Commissioner's House in JerusalemAutobiography, 1952The Smell of Gasoline Ascends in My NoseSix Poems for TamarYehuda Ha-LeviIbn GabirolWhen I Was a ChildLook: Thoughts and DreamsFrom We Loved HereFrom Two Hopes Away (1958)God's Hand in the WorldSort of an ApocalypseAnd That Is Your GloryOf Three or Four in a RoomNot Like a CypressThrough Two Points Only One Straight Line Can PassHalf the People in the WorldFor My BirthdayTwo PhotographsPoems for a WomanChildren's ProcessionBallad of the Washed HairSonnet from the VoyageThe Visit of the Queen of ShebaFrom In a Right Angle: A Cycle of QuatrainsFrom Poems, 1948-1962As for the WorldIn the Middle of This CenturyFarewell,Such as SorrowJerusalemBeforeAnd as Far as Abu GhoshYou Too Cot TiredThe Place Where We Are RightMayorResurrectionFrom Summer or Its EndIn the Full Severity of MercyToo ManyPoem for Arbor DayJacob and the AngelHereElegy on an Abandoned VillageThe Elegy on the Lost ChildFrom Now in the Storm, Poems 1963-1968Jerusalem, 1967The Bull ReturnsA LuxuryTo Bake the Bread of YearningNational ThoughtsA Pity. We Were Such a Good InventionElegyThreadingNow in the StormTravels of the Last Benjamin of TudelaPART TWOedited and translated by Chana BlochFrom Not for the Sake of Remembering (1971)Jews in the Land of IsraelWildpeaceThe Way It WasInstead of WordsGifts of LoveBallad in the Streets of Buenos AiresPsalmFrom Behind All This a Great Happiness Is Hiding (1976)Seven Laments for the War-DeadLike the Inner Wall of a HouseLove SongI've Grown Very HairyA Dog After LoveA Bride Without a DowryThe Sweet Breakdowns of AbigailTo a ConvertMy Father in a White Space SuitA Letter of RecommendationOn the Day I LeftA LetterIn a Leap YearA Quiet JoyA Mutual LullabyFrom Songs of Zion the BeautifulFrom Time (1978)Songs of ContinuityAt the Monastery of LatrounWhen I Was Young, the Whole Country Was YoungI Walked Past a House Where I Lived OnceTo My Love, Combing Her HairThe Diameter of the BombWhen I Banged My Head on the DoorYou Carry the Weight of Heavy ButtocksAdvice for Good LoveYou Are So Small and Slight in the RainA Man Like That on a Bald Mountain in JerusalemWhen a Man's Far Away from His CountryThe Eve of Rosh HashanahI've Already Been WeanedIn the Garden, at the White TableFrom the Book of Esther I Filtered the SedimentSo I Went Down to the Ancient HarborNow the Lifeguards Have All Gone HomeNear the Wall of a HouseFrom A Great Tranquillity: Questions and Answers (1980)You Can Rely on HimYou Mustn't Show WeaknessLost ObjectsForgetting Someone"The Rustle of History's Wings," as They Used to Say Then1978 Reunion of Palmach Veterans at Ma'ayan HarodAn Eternal WindowThere Are Candles That RememberOn the Day My Daughter Was Born No One DiedAll These Make a Dance RhythmIn the Morning It Was Still NightA Child Is Something Else AgainWhen I Have a StomachacheI Feel Just Fine in My PantsJerusalem Is Full of Used JewsEcology of JerusalemIn the Old CityTouristsAn Arab Shepherd Is Searching for His Goat on Mount ZionA Song of Lies on Sabbath EveThe Parents Left the ChildLove Is Finished AgainEnd of Summer in the Judean MountainsRelativityPoem Without an EndA Great Tranquillity: Questions and AnswersFrom The Hour of Grace (1983)1924Half-Sized ViolinA Pace Like ThatThe BoxThe Last Word Is the CaptainStatisticsThe Hour of GraceWhat a Complicated MessI Lost My Identity CardOn Mount MuhrakaSummer BeginsHamadiyaAt the SeashoreOn Some Other Planet You May Be RightAutumn Rain in Tel AvivA Flock of Sheep Near the AirportAlmost a Love PoemThey Are All DiceA Precise WomanJasmineKibbutz GevaramHistoryThe Real HeroAt the Maritime MuseumTry to Remember Some DetailsA Man in His LifeFrom From Man Thou Art and Unto ManShalt Thou Return (1985)My Mother Comes from the DaysNow She's BreathingMy Mother Died on ShavuotThe Body Is the Cause of LoveOrchardLate MarriageInside the AppleNorth of BeershebaI Guard the ChildrenNorth of San FranciscoFall in ConnecticutSandalsJerusalem, 1985EvidenceThe Course of a LifeFrom The Fist, Too, Was Once the Palmof an Open Hand, and Fingers (1989)What Kind of ManThe Greatest DesireTwo Disappeared into a HouseI Know a ManBetweenSummer Evening in the Jerusalem MountainsAt the BeachThe Sea and the ShoreAutumn Is Near and the Memory of My ParentsYom KippurBeginning of Autumn in the Hills of EphraimRuhamaHuleikat- The Third Poem about DickyThe Shore of AshkelonFields of SunflowersFirst Rain on a Burned CarWe Did What We Had ToNotesAcknowledgmentsIndex of Titles