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The Selected Poetry Of Dan Pagis » (New Edition)

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Authors: Dan Pagis, Stephen Mitchell (Translator), Robert Alter
ISBN-13: 9780520205390, ISBN-10: 0520205391
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: October 1996
Edition: New Edition

Author Biography: Dan Pagis

Stephen Mitchell's numerous translations include The Book of Job, A Book of Psalms, and Genesis. Robert Alter is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of The Art of Biblical Narrative (1987).

Book Synopsis

"The poems glow with pleasure in themselves. One can hear a kind of laughter resonating, as if having surpassed the moment and its trial, having presented suffering yet having set distance from it through the medium of his art. Though Dan Pagis has died too soon, may we learn from him to live."—David Ignatow

	Introduction
	Autobiography	5
	Brothers	7
	The Souvenir	9
	Ein Leben	10
	Homily	11
	Siege	12
	The Last Ones	19
	In the Laboratory	20
	The Readiness	21
	The Caveman Is Not about to Talk	22
	A Lesson in Observation	23
	Spaceship	24
	Final Examination	25
	Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car	29
	An Opening to Satan	30
	Europe, Late	31
	The Roll Call	32
	Testimony	33
	Instructions for Crossing the Border	34
	Draft of a Reparations Agreement	35
	Footprints	36
	The Tortoise	45
	A Modest Sum	46
	Snake	47
	Tidings	48
	Bestiary	49
	Writers	52
	Tropical Greenhouse	54
	Information	55
	Real-Life Story	56
	Twelve Faces of the Emerald	58
	A Moment at the Louvre	63
	Lament for a Master of Style	64
	Encounters	65
	Fragments of an Elegy	66
	Twenty Years in the Valley	67
	Jason's Grave in Jerusalem	68
	An Ancient Complaint	69
	Memorial Evening	70
	Central Park, Twilight	71
	The Grand Duke of New York	72
	Early Winter, Long Island	74
	The Deceased Writer: Photograph in the Rain	75
	Moments of Old Age	76
	The Portrait	77
	A Small Poetics	81
	Sugarduke	82
	Wall Calendar	83
	Final Report	84
	For a Literary Survey	85
	Silent Movie	86
	The Art of Contraction	87
	Sominex	88
	Conversation	89
	April	90
	The End of Winter	91
	Acrobatics	95
	Bridgehead Photograph	96
	Devotion	98
	For How Long	99
	Out of Line	100
	He'll Come Out for Sure	101
	The Runner Artist	103
	Picture Postcard from Our Youth	104
	Toward Home	105
	Outside an Air Base, California	106
	A New Lover	107
	Sudden Heart	108
	Exposure	111
	Point of Departure	112
	The Limits of Physics	113
	The Story	115
	The Freedom Machine	116
	How To	117
	Recognition	118
	Visit to a Physicist	119
	Failure	120
	Sport	121
	Bisection	122
	Wind from Variable Directions	123
	Epilogue to Robinson Crusoe	131
	The Tower	132
	Pages in an Album	133
	Seashell	134
	Come	135
	The Shot	136
	The Beginning	137
	The Cycle	138
	Harvests	139
	Ready for Parting	140
	Scarabs	141
	Already	142
	Brain	145
	End of the Questionnaire	153
	Acknowledgments	155
	About the Author	157

Subjects

Poetry

Arabic & Middle Eastern Poetry

Israeli poetry
Fiction Books & Literature