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The Window: New and Selected PoemsDahlia RavikovitchEdited by Chana BlochTranslated by Chana Bloch
Categories: Jewish
Imprint: Sheep Meadow Press Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Hardback (120 pages) (Pub. Aug 2011) 9780935296815 Out of Stock
Dahlia Ravikovitch is Israel's leading woman poet. Born in Ramat Gan in 1936, she has published five volumes of poetry, a book of short stories, and two books of children's verse.
Contents:
Foreword by Robert Alter Translator's Note The Love of an orange (1959) On the Road at Night The Tearing The Commandment A Wicked Hand Clockwork Doll Painting A Small Woman Delight The Land of the Setting Sun Night Sorrow Someone to Save Him Around Jerusalem Behind the Rain A Hard Winter (1964) Requiem after Seventeen Years Dust Magic Time Caught in a Net Distant Land Heartbreak in the Park Trying Trying Again Heron Hills of Salt The Raging Waters Mahlon and Chilion A Hard Winter Abuse They Told Me to Bring A great tremor The Blue West The Third Book (1969) Surely you Remember Two Songs of the Garden Australia Now the Moon Vanilla The Marionette Pure Memory Imagination is a Boundless Thing The Horns of Hittin Pride A Dress of Fire A Personal Opinion In Chad and Cameroon 60 How Hong Kong was Destroyed In the Right Wind The End of the Fall Even a Thousand Years Deep Calleth Unto Deep (1976) Day Unto Day Uttereth Speech Midnight Song Poem of Explanations Sand Deep Calleth Unto Deep In Jerusalem Like Rachel King over Israel Impoverishment From Day to Night the Sound of Birds at Noon Real Love (1986) Iddo Wakes Up The Glass pavilion Little Child's Head on the Pillow The Beginning of Silence Cinderella in the Kitchen The Finish Line A Declaration for the future Rough Draft Requiem Gladi in Richmond Blood Heifer You Can't Kill a Baby Twice Hovering at Low Altitude New Zealand It Will Certainly Come Birdy Light and Darkness The Window Notes to the Poems Biograhical Notes
Awards won by Chana Bloch
Winner, 2012 Meringoff Poetry Award
[Ravikovitch's] poetry deals overwhelmingly with extreme states of personal life: desolation, loss, estrangement, breakdown...Landscape, history, the Bible, and best of all, a caustic mother wit: all figure behind the shaken self...She is a poet of wit, severe and costly, and this saves her, at least in the poems...Her language bristles with sharpness...To read these poems is to see the whole world pressed into one imperilled being, and then, through the calming maneuvers of imagination, to watch that being glide past it's own squalor and smallness
Irving Howe, The New Republic The libation that Dahlia Ravikovitch pours is of a sparkling purity and lyric freshness. Her song is both ancient and new, and it is unutterably poignant. Chana Bloch has made a loving translation from the original Hebrew. No poetry in recent years has moved me more Stanley Kunitz |
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