Dahlia Ravikovitch is Israel's leading woman poet. Born in Ramat Gan in 1936, she has published five volumes of poetry, a book of short stories, and two books of children's verse.
Description
Contents Foreword by Robert Alter ix Translator's Note xv The Love of an orange (1959) On the Road at Night 3 The Tearing 4 The Commandment 5 A Wicked Hand 6 Clockwork Doll 7 Painting 8 A Small Woman 9 Delight 11 The Land of the Setting Sun 12 Night Sorrow 13 Someone to Save Him 14 Around Jerusalem 15 Behind the Rain 16 A Hard Winter (1964) Requiem after Seventeen Years 19 Dust 20 Magic 21 Time Caught in a Net 22 Distant Land 23 Heartbreak in the Park 24 Trying 26 Trying Again 27 Heron 28 Hills of Salt 29 The Raging Waters 30 Mahlon and Chilion 31 A Hard Winter 32 Abuse 33 They Told Me to Bring 34 A great tremor 35 The Blue West 36 The Third Book (1969) Surely you Remember 41 Two Songs of the Garden 43 Australia 45 Now the Moon 47 Vanilla 48 The Marionette 50 Pure Memory 52 Imagination is a Boundless Thing 53 The Horns of Hittin 54 Pride 56 A Dress of Fire 57 A Personal Opinion 59 In Chad and Cameroon 60 How Hong Kong was Destroyed 61 In the Right Wind 63 The End of the Fall 65 Even a Thousand Years 66 Deep Calleth Unto Deep (1976) Day Unto Day Uttereth Speech 71 Midnight Song 72 Poem of Explanations 73 Sand 74 Deep Calleth Unto Deep 75 In Jerusalem 76 Like Rachel 77 King over Israel 78 Impoverishment 80 From Day to Night 81 the Sound of Birds at Noon 82 Real Love (1986) Iddo Wakes Up 85 The Glass pavilion 87 Little Child's Head on the Pillow 88 The Beginning of Silence 89 Cinderella in the Kitchen 90 The Finish Line 92 A Declaration for the future 93 Rough Draft 94 Requiem 95 Gladi in Richmond 97 Blood Heifer 98 You Can't Kill a Baby Twice 100 Hovering at Low Altitude 103 New Zealand 105 It Will Certainly Come 107 Birdy 109 Light and Darkness 110 The Window 112 Notes to the Poems 113 Biograhical Notes 117
Reviews
'The libation that Dahlia Ravikovitch pours is of a sparkling purity and lyric freshness. Her song is both ancient and new, and it is unutterably poignant. Chana Bloch has made a loving translation from the original Hebrew. No poety in recent years has moved me more.' - Stanley Kunitz '[Ravikovitch's] poetry deals overwhelmingly with extreme states of personal life: desolation, loss, estrangement, breakdown...Landscape, history, the Bible, and best of all, a caustic mother wit: all figure behind the shaken self...She is a poet of wit, severe and costly, and this saves her, at least in the poems...Her language bristles with sharpness...To read these poems is to see the whole world pressed into one imperilled being, and then, through the calming maneuvers of imagination, to watch that being glide past it's own squalor and smallness.' - Irving Howe, The New Republic. 'Chana and Ariel Bloch's consistently deft translations...breathe in English the very life of the Hebrew originals.' - Robert Alter