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- Bridging the Divide: The Selected Poems of Hava Pinhas-Cohen, Bilingual Edition
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Syracuse University Press
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Raised in a Ladino-speaking family of Bulgarian Jewish immigrants, Pinhas-Cohen fuses the ancient Sephardic chant of her childhood with the contemporary rhythm of Israeli life. This singular talent for bridging the ancient and the modern sets her apart from most other Hebrew poets of her generation. Secular in style and spirit, yet rooted in the life cycle of religious Judaism, Pinhas-Cohen’s poems portray everyday life in modern Israel through a sacred yet personal language. Awarded the coveted Prime Minister’s Prize for her poetry, Pinhas-Cohen is a poet whose verse in English translation is long overdue. This bilingual collection offers readers a careful selection of poems from each of her seven published volumes. Hart-Green has worked closely with the poet herself on these translations, several of which have appeared in journals such as the Jewish Quarterly and the Toronto Journal of Jewish Thought. Her lively translations display the dazzling breadth and depth of Pinhas-Cohen’s oeuvre, making Bridging the Divide not only the first but the definitive English-language edition of this vital Hebrew poet’s work.
Table of Contents
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- Translator’s Note
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. xv-xx
- Book One: from The Color Is the Main Thing (1989)
- From Songs of Home
- pp. 2-3
- And Abraham Woke Early
- pp. 4-5
- Follow the Arrow
- pp. 8-9
- Yom Kippur Eve
- pp. 10-11
- Prayer for Rain
- pp. 12-13
- Henry Moore
- pp. 14-15
- The Color Is the Main Thing
- pp. 18-19
- Remembering Our Fathers
- pp. 24-27
- Photosynthesis
- pp. 28-29
- Book Two: from Journey of a Doe (1995)
- An Ineffable Name
- pp. 34-35
- On the Eve of a Holiday
- pp. 36-39
- A House with a Yard
- pp. 44-45
- A Mother’s Prayer before Dawn
- pp. 52-53
- Other Faces
- pp. 54-55
- The Day the Country Began to Vomit
- pp. 56-59
- Before the Gates
- pp. 62-63
- Book Three: from A River and Forgetfulness (1998)
- This Is the Time
- pp. 82-83
- In My Dream, Their Door
- pp. 84-85
- When My Creations Sing Songs
- pp. 88-89
- Two Rams Struggling
- pp. 90-91
- Priestly Blessing
- pp. 92-93
- What Is His Intention
- pp. 94-95
- About the Milk and the Blood
- pp. 98-100
- Book Four: from Poems of Orphe’a (2000)
- Ear of Corn
- pp. 102-103
- In Those Days
- pp. 104-105
- Thirty Days
- pp. 106-107
- Ballad of the Pit and the Creator
- pp. 108-109
- Door of the Dead
- pp. 112-113
- Only in the East
- pp. 114-117
- The Days After
- pp. 118-119
- On the Vlatava River
- pp. 120-121
- An Empty Chair in the Month of Nissan
- pp. 122-123
- The Weight of Emptiness
- pp. 124-127
- Present and Absent
- pp. 128-129
- A Woman Breaks
- pp. 130-131
- Living on the Dead
- pp. 132-133
- In the Rhythm of Love
- pp. 134-137
- After Three Days
- pp. 138-139
- False Impressions
- pp. 140-142
- Book Five: from Messiah (2003)
- When Are You
- pp. 146-147
- Wandering and Rejected
- pp. 148-149
- Bearing Prayer and Guilt
- pp. 150-151
- Menachem, My Love
- pp. 152-153
- Wings of Humiliation
- pp. 154-155
- Exile’s Home
- pp. 156-157
- Here I Am, a Portrait before You
- pp. 158-159
- You Are Loneliness
- pp. 160-161
- The Valley Opposite the Mountain
- pp. 164-165
- A Moment Before
- pp. 166-169
- This Is Not Flight
- pp. 170-172
- Book Six: from The Gardener, the Shrew, and the Harlot (2006)
- The Deer Came at Night
- pp. 174-175
- And I Realized the Sea Is Also a Place
- pp. 176-177
- My Knowledge of Silence
- pp. 178-179
- I Succumbed to the Voice
- pp. 180-181
- “He who sees it says: That is it”
- pp. 184-185
- A Different Departure
- pp. 186-187
- [The Gardener and the Apples]
- pp. 188-189
- His Shadow
- pp. 190-191
- November Apples
- pp. 192-193
- [Looking Back]
- pp. 194-195
- On the Heights of a Hill
- pp. 196-198
- Book Seven: from Seventh (2008)
- The Place That Gave Me Its Name
- pp. 200-201
- Not Enough
- pp. 202-203
- Death Is Drawing Attention to Me
- pp. 204-205
- Something Is Alive in Frozen Places
- pp. 206-208
Additional Information
ISBN
9780815653332
Related ISBN(s)
9780815610540
MARC Record
OCLC
918510977
Pages
248
Launched on MUSE
2015-08-15
Language
English
Open Access
No