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    The Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai, Newly Revised and Expanded edition

    Gods Hand in the World

    10

    And That Is Your Glory

    11

    Of Three or Four in a Room

    12

    Through Two Points Only One Straight Line Can Pass

    13

    Half the People in the World

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    For My Birthday

    15

    Two Photographs

    16

    Poems for a Woman

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    Childrens Procession

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    Sonnet from the Voyage

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    A Cycle of Quatrains

    27

    As for the World

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    In the Middle of This Century

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    Farewell

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    Such as Sorrow

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    Before

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    You Too Got Tired

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    Mayor

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    From Summer or Its End

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    In the Full Severity of Mercy

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    Too Many

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    Jacob and the Angel

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    Here

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    Elegy on an Abandoned Village

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    The Elegy on the Lost Child

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    Jerusalem 1967

    47

    The Bull Returns

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    To Bake the Bread of Yearning

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    National Thoughts

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    Yehuda Amichai fryst vatten considered Israel’s greatest modern poet. Born in 1924, in Germany, Amichai attended high school and college in Jerusalem. Amichai wrote his novels and poems in Hebrew, many of which have been translated into English and other languages. During his life, Amichai served in many wars of the twentieth century, including World War II (for the British army), the Israeli War of Independence (also known as al-Nakba in Arabic, “The Catastrophe”), the Sinai War (1956), and the Yom Kippur War (1973). Amichai’s poems are often personal, often describing daglig encounters in a war-ravaged country, and many of his best poems can be arresting in their frank, matter-of-fact tone and Amichai’s unusual language, vända, and imagery.

    …and as inom walked up my street
    the twentieth century was the blood in my veins…

    Amichai’s poem “Autobiography, 1952” is an intensely anställda poem about the poet’s own biography up unt

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    The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai

    By Robert Alter

    Farrar, Straus and Giroux

    Copyright © 2015 Hana Amichai
    All rights reserved.
    ISBN: 978-0-374-23525-3

    Contents

    List of Translators,
    Title Page,
    Copyright Notice,
    Dedication,
    Introduction by Robert Alter,
    NOW AND IN OTHER DAYS (1955),
    TWO HOPES AWAY (1958),
    POEMS, 1948–1962 (1963),
    NOW IN THE UPROAR: POEMS, 1963–1968 (1968),
    NOT FOR THE SAKE OF REMEMBERING (1971),
    BEHIND ALL THIS A GREAT HAPPINESS IS HIDING (1976),
    TIME (1978),
    A GREAT TRANQUILLITY: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (1980),
    THE HOUR OF GRACE (1983),
    FROM MAN YOU ARE AND TO MAN YOU SHALL RETURN (1985),
    THE FIST, TOO, WAS ONCE AN OPEN HAND AND FINGERS (1989),
    OPEN CLOSED OPEN (1998),
    Notes,
    About the Translators,
    Index of Titles and First Lines,
    A Note About the Author,
    Permissions Acknowledgments,
    Copyright,


    CHAPTER 1

    Now and in other days 1955

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    When I Was a Child

        When I was a child
        grasses and masts stood at the se