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Love and Selected PoemsAharon ShabtaiTranslated by Peter Cole![]()
Categories: 20th Century, Jewish
Imprint: Sheep Meadow Press Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Hardback (248 pages) (Pub. Jul 2011) 9781878818539 Out of Stock
In his fusions of the sensual and the spiritual, the ordinary and the exalted, the sexual in the suffering psyche and the intelligent consciousness searching and spinning through history, myth and layers of language, Shabtai is one of the most exciting poets writing anywhere, and certainly the most audacious. The poems have a wonderful almost vertiginous energy, an enormous erudition, and a startling, finally inspiring candor. A splendid book brilliantly translated by Peter Cole - C.K.Williams
Aharon Shabtai's poetry is of epic range: personal and historical, full of hard won knowledge and the sexual dramas the Greeks allowed their gods and themselves. He can be placed in a line that stretches from Biblical to Greek origins to Catullus to Joyce to Jean Genet and other masters of language, revelry, and revelation - Stanley Moss
Contents:
Introduction - Peter Cole Love Teacher's Room Before School Kibbutz Our culture The Dining Hall Education The Domestic Poem Begin The Revolt from part II Divorce The Car A Street The last year of my marriage Spoon and Fork The Prayer Book Sometimes a step The Heart The Onion Basket Masha, my mother I tossed and turned To My Daughter The Shoe The Door Honor Ziva Two or three months apart I'm obliged to honor your cunt I pay no attention The body's our final farm Ziva I brush the teeth of the beast The essence of wisdom I pound my egghead The pig reads nothing Metazivika Like the ant and the seed Through folly Like a butterfly My heart's so full of shit With each passing season and year Day after day after day When you were twenty The Heart Consecration For National Poetry Week 1992 Again you're in paris Finding it hard to fall asleep I've Always Missed Out Drenched with Sweat If All the World Were Contained Ah Nili Never Again Will I Break that Record Happiness Nothing Will Come of You
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