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Modern Hebrew Poets

By: Robert Friend, Gabriel Levin (Selected by)

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Paperback | 1 November 2006

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The American-born Robert Friend, who died in Jerusalem in 1998, was a distinguished poet and translator. Friend's skill as a poet, combined with his facility for languages, allowed him to excel at the exceedingly difficult task of translating poetry. He translated some eight hundred works first written in Hebrew, Yiddish, Spanish, French, German, and Arabic, but is best known for his translation of Hebrew poetry. Toby Press is pleased to release this classic as a new bilingual edition, the original Hebrew poems appearing next to Friend's superlative translations.

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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays Anthologies (non-poetry)Poetry

Only a single ray	p. 3
Summer night	p. 3
Stars shine and go out	p. 5
If you found	p. 7
Summer is dying	p. 9
At twilight	p. 11
My soul sinks	p. 13
Orphanhood	p. 15
Do not, although	p. 19
The secrets of the landscape	p. 23
Eve	p. 23
Jerusalem	p. 25
All of a summer	p. 27
Rain at night	p. 27
Till evening	p. 29
It has been long	p. 29
Turn towards the end	p. 31
Love was late in coming	p. 33
He too will soon go away	p. 33
In my great loneliness	p. 35
Surrender	p. 35
Tiny joy	p. 37
Wrestling	p. 37
The barn	p. 39
At the window	p. 41
The messenger came in the night	p. 41
My dead	p. 43
With gentle fingers	p. 45
On autumn nights	p. 45
Silently you stand before me	p. 47
Waiting-rooms	p. 49
A single and last carriage	p. 49
Song of the great mind	p. 53
I thirst for water	p. 55
Song of earth	p. 57
The hour is tired	p. 59
Song to heaven	p. 61
I have never been	p. 63
Song of my people-forest, people-sea	p. 63
A serenade for two poplars	p. 67
Folk tune	p. 67
Today I am modest	p. 69
The monasteries lift gold domes	p. 71
Precious stones	p. 73
Wormwood has enchanted me	p. 75
Day turns to evening	p. 75
Lightly a slight shadow	p. 77
Incredible splendor	p. 77
Light, my light	p. 79
The moon's brightness	p. 79
Near the mill	p. 81
There broke into my cell	p. 81
Summer night	p. 85
Moon	p. 85
First smile	p. 87
The mole	p. 91
The spinner	p. 95
The shadow	p. 97
The householder departs from the city	p. 99
Tel Aviv 1935	p. 101
In the Jerusalem hills	p. 103
From my mother's home	p. 111
A god once commanded us	p. 113
Song of the strange woman	p. 113
Not for a long time now	p. 117
That poem I didn't write	p. 119
Heavenly Jerusalem, Jerusalem of the earth	p. 119
Toward myself	p. 123
Night : and I am drinking	p. 125
Words of oblivion and peace	p. 127
The tired hunter	p. 127
The eternal present	p. 129
A little research in snow	p. 131
From a late diary	p. 131
A lesson in translation	p. 133
A brief note from Jerusalem	p. 135
Rain poem	p. 135
With Walter and Amati	p. 137
The crippled beggar	p. 141
My father fought their way four years or so	p. 145
Savage memories	p. 145
All the generations before me	p. 147
What drove young Joseph	p. 149
The thoughts came to him	p. 149
A pity. We were such a good invention	p. 151
Half of the people in the world	p. 151
Lips of the dead once thoughtlessly	p. 153
The two of us together, each of us alone	p. 155
The death of my father	p. 157
Couplets	p. 157
Not like the cypress	p. 159
Don't prepare for tomorrow	p. 161
Autobiography	p. 167
The battle	p. 169
Evidence	p. 169
Roll-call	p. 171
Ready	p. 171
The mosquito	p. 173
Balloons	p. 173
The late author : snapshot in the rain	p. 175
Ein Ieben	p. 177
Winter's end	p. 177
Seven	p. 181
Failure	p. 187
Six local poems	p. 189
Life of a dead dog	p. 193
Clockwork doll	p. 199
Everyone's dancing where I live	p. 201
Line of a poem	p. 203
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Modern Hebrew Poets

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