Hovering at a low altitude : the collected poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch / translated from the Hebrew by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld.

Author
Ravikovitch, Dalia, 1936-2005 [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/​Created
  • New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2009]
  • ©2009
Description
271 pages ; 25 cm

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    Includes index.
    Contents
    • The Love of an Orange (1959). The Love of an Orange. The Central Pillar ; The Central Pillar ; Knowledge Comes Easy to the Wise ; Six Hundred Thirteen Commandments Plus One ; A Wicked Hand ; "On the road at night there stands the man"
    • The Land of the Setting Sun. The Land of the Setting Sun ; Savior ; The Coming of the Messiah ; Royal Gifts
    • Clockwork Doll. Clockwork Doll ; Picture ; The Rending ; The Sorrow of Night ; The Dove ; Sparks of Light. Sparks of Light ; "A little woman made the world" ; Delight ; Blue Lizard in the Sun ; Love ; Intoxication
    • The Seasons of the Year. The Seasons of the Year ; Around Jerusalem ; The Moon in the Rain ; Like the Rolling Dust before the Whirlwind
    • Hard Winter (1964). Questions and Answers. The Blue West ; Time Caught in a Net ; Faraway Land ; Murmurings ; Hills of Salt ; The Hurling ; Flowers of Every Color ; The Blue West
    • Warm Memories. Requiem after Seventeen Years ; Mahlon and Chilion ; Trying ; The Second Trying ; Tirzah's Dreams ; Warm Memories
    • The Roar of the Waters. The Roar of the Waters ; A Hard Winter ; Heartbreak in the Park ; Crane ; Tirzah and the Whole Wide World ; Magic Spells ; Scoffing ; Outrage
    • Unclear Days. War in Zanzibar ; The End of the War ; On Account of a King ; The Turning of the Times ; The Further Travels of the Sea-Wolf ; Unclear Days ; Shunra ; Shunra II
    • The Third Book (1969). Surely You Remember. The Dress ; Two Garden Songs ; How Hong Kong Was Destroyed ; The Dress ; The Bullfrogs ; Waning and Waxing
    • In the Right Wind. The End of the Fall ; In the Right Wind ; The Imagination's a Thing That Hath No Measure ; The Horns of Hittin
    • The Viking. Portrait ; Two Ships Burning ; Australia ; A Private Opinion ; Antoine de Saint-Exupery, In Memoriam ; The Viking ; In Chad and Cameroon ; Pride
    • The Marionette. Even for a Thousand Years ; Next Year ; What's Happening ; A pure whole memory ; The marionette
    • Deep calleth (1976). Day unto day uttereth speech ; King over Israel ; Midnight song 1970 ; This nightmare ; All thy breakers and waves ; Growing poor ; Negligible sand ; From day to night ; The sound of birds at noon ; Hide and seek ; Who art thou, o great mountain ; Deep unto deep ; In Jerusalem ; Afternoon in Trafalgar Square ; Attributes of the human ; Like Rachel ; Of wonders beyond my understanding ; Poem of explanations
    • True love (1987). The beginning of silence ; The finish line ; He will surely come ; Rough draft ; Making a living
    • No stitchery more precise. Ido awakes ; Little child's head ; No stitchery more precise ; In line at the theater ; h The glass pavilion
    • The window. The window ; Birdy ; Finally I'm Talking ; Hovering at a Low Altitude ; A Deadly Fear ; At Her Own Pace ; Cinderella in the Kitchen ; Light and Darkness ; We Had an Understanding ; "And Sympathy is all we need, my friend" ; A Declaration for the Future ; The Law of Gravitation ; Gadi in Richmond ; For the Ascent of His Soul ; True Love Isn't What It Seems
    • Issues in Contemporary Judaism. A Jewish Portrait ; They're Freezing Up North ; You Can't Kill a Baby Twice ; Get Out of Beirut ; Beheaded Heifer ; On the Attitude toward Children in Times of War ; Two Isles Hath New Zealand ; Hamlet, Supreme Commander
    • Mother and Child (1992). Atypical Autumn ; Attempt to Express an Opinion ; A Far-Reaching Athletic Exercise ; Do or Die ; Signs and Portents ; The Cat ; State of Alert Drill ; Poem in the Arab Style, Perhaps ; Lying upon the Waters ; But She Had a Son ; What a Time She Had! ; A Mother Walks Around ; A Bottle on the Waters ; He Crashed before Takeoff ; The Story of the Arab Who Died in the Fire ; Lullaby ; Free Associating ; Rina Slavin ; Leafy Greenery ; To Every Thing There Is a Season ; When the Eyes Open ; History of the Individual ; The Captors Require a Song
    • New Poems (1995). There Is No Fear of God in This Place ; Conversation with a Photo ; Oxygen ; The Way of All Nature ; Memento ; The Hope of the Poet
    • Many Waters (2006). Many Waters ; As Though I Were Not ; Guilt Feelings ; Three or Four Cyclamen ; Kite in an Empty Sky ; Child Boy Man ; Etc. Etc ; More on the Matter of Ido ; Half an Hour before the Monsoon ; In the Year to Come, in the Days to Come ; She Doesn't Really Know ; The Feast of Love without Mama ; Rectangular Picture in an Oval Frame ; Banalia ; A Northern Winter's Day ; Briefing on the State of Affairs: Beginning of Summer ; Upside Down and Inside Out ; Adloyada in Manhattan ; Swimming Practice ; An Unsatisfactory Answer to the Question ; Sergeant Major Eyal Sameach ; Marina Haddad ; The poetics of applying "moderate physical pressure" ; Metamorphosis ; The fruit of the land.
    ISBN
    • 9780393065244 ((hardcover))
    • 0393065243 ((hardcover))
    • 9780393340099 ((paperback))
    • 0393340090 ((paperback))
    LCCN
    2008054944
    OCLC
    286488224
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