The flower of anarchy : selected poems / Meir Wieseltier ; translated from the Hebrew by Shirley Kaufman, with the author.

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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Working with the Poet: A Translator's Response; EARLY POEMS (1960-1969); Kingchild; Weather; On Wonders; Ballad; Daddy and Mommy Went to the Movies, Ilana Stays Alone in the Armchair Looking at a Gray Book; I saw three baby-faced Germans; The world is full of the righteous; Abraham; Take a Look at My Rebels; Song of the Last Soldier; Poetry Swallowed; The Famous Peppers of Mrs. Almozlino; Sometimes Macbeth; The Journey of the Great Egyptian Obelisk to the West; I Ask Myself; FROM: Take (1973); Take; Friends; A Request; Remembering; Isaac's Story; Call-Up.

SkywritingAdoshem; Words for Music; FROM: Something Optimistic, the Making of Poems (1976); Passengers; The Secret of Authority; In Camera; Every arm; Sealed in a Bottle; Wives of October; A dull khaki light comes down again; Fruit; March; The Illustrated Bible; A Dream of Death as an Angel; Ecology; FROM: Exit to the Sea (1981); from: Earth Thoughts in Summer Flow; 1 Out of a glutted slumber I rise with a love of words; 3 And history is a ragged uniform, discolored; 5 Good; 8 I gave my dog an old sandal; 9 Not long after sunset; 12 Naive Painting; 13 A woman in black.

16 There are many words I haven't put downLove Poem; Garbage Dump, 2000; Salt on the Wounds of the Land; To Be Continued; Exit to the Sea; The poet dressed up as an angel of God; FROM: Letters and Other Poems (1986); Letter 1; Letter 2; Letter 3; Letter 4; Letter 16; Cities on Their Mounds; Pro & Con; Sonnet: Against Making Blood Speak Out; Conversation with a Radio; Soliloquy of Dada the Cat; FROM: Storage (1995); Output; Cheese; Musée Picasso, or Some Words in Praise of Human Foolishness; Burning Holy Books; from: Windows Near Mallarmé; Live; The Head; Window to the Future.

River in the DesertThe Fowl of the Air; The Flower of Anarchy; Thin Livestock; FROM: Slow Poems (2000); Far from the Flag Parade; from: Poems with a Dog; 1 Bitch/Armchair; 3 Death thought/Dog sprints; Rainy Love; The Man at the Piano; Jerusalem, 3000; The Tel-Aviv Subway; E.P.; In Paradise; On the Seventy-three; A March for Long-Distance Poets; The believer in what words can do; Notes.

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Meir Wieseltier's verbal power, historical awareness, and passionate engagement have placed him in the first rank of contemporary Hebrew poetry. The Flower of Anarchy, a selection of Wieseltier's poems spanning almost forty years, collects in one volume, for the first time, English translations of some of his finest work. Superbly translated by the award-winning American-Israeli poet-translator Shirley Kaufman--who has worked with the poet on these translations for close to thirty years--this book brings together some of the most praised and admired early poems published in several small books d.

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