Research Catalog

Title

Poems / Yehuda Amichai, translated from the Hebrew by Assia Gutmann, with an introduction by Michael Hamburger.

Author

Amichai, Yehuda.

Publication

New York, Harper & Row [1969]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wevill, Assia, 1927-1969
• Hamburger, Michael

Description

xi, 57 pages; 22 cm

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections. English

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• Amichai, Yehuda > Translations into English
• Amichai, Yehuda
• 1900-1999
• Israeli poetry > 20th century
• Israeli poetry
• Hebrew poetry > Translations into English

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• poetry.
• Translations
• Poetry.
• Hebrew poetry
• Poésie.

Contents

King Saul and I -- Ibn Gabirol -- The place I have not been -- Out of three or four in a room -- If with a bitter mouth -- In my time, in your place -- In my worst dreams -- Farewell, you -- A pity, we were such a good invention -- It was summer, or the end of summer -- Two songs on caesarea beach -- Like our bodies' imprint -- God has pity on kindergarten children -- Two quatrains -- Eye examination -- In the middle of this century -- Poem in an orange grove -- I was the moon -- As for the world -- She knows -- Tourist -- God's fate -- My mother once told me -- My parents' migration -- To summon witnesses -- The end of elul -- Quick and bitter -- Luxury -- Two songs of peace -- My child -- Song of resignation -- To my mother -- Mayor -- My father fought their war for four years -- The United Nations' command in Jerusalem -- You also were so tired -- Two bedouin songs -- Indian summer in Princeton -- The heart is a corrupt director -- National thoughts -- If I forget thee, Jerusalem -- Rain on a battlefield -- The first battles -- High-heeled shoes -- They call me -- It's a long time since anybody's asked.

LCCN

69015293

OCLC

• ocm00012331
• 12331
• SCSB-116241

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library