Night, Morning: Selected Poems of Hamutal

Bilingual Edition Translated from the Hebrew by Rachel Tzvia Back "A reasonably discerning reader of Hamutal Bar-Yosef in translation will find that although her poems are written about her life, which has been tragic and sometimes glorious, Israel, the Jews and their culture, what it means to be alive, the world--all very big subjects--her writing is such that if she were writing about a soap bubble she would be immediately recognizable as a great poet." --Stanley Moss

HAMUTAL BAR-YOSEF has been the recipient of numerous awards, including The Jerusalem Prize for Poetry, The President of Israel Prize for Poetry and The Brenner Prize. She has been a visiting professor in Paris, Moscow and New York. She lives in Jerusalem.

Introduction David Shapiro
The Well	p. 3
Early Poems (1971-1984)
Breathing	p. 7
Primipara	p. 9
Finger	p. 11
Now in the Yard	p. 13
Raspberry Bush	p. 15
Now	p. 17
A Pot	p. 19
From Fear	p. 21
New Year	p. 23
Steps	p. 25
My Brother's Funeral	p. 27
Dove	p. 29
The Tower of Tevets	p. 31
Falestine	p. 35
Kitchen Table	p. 37
from In the Crush (1990)
In the Crush	p. 41
We Were Born Here	p. 43
A Childhood Memory	p. 45
An Old Song & Twelve Reflections on a Dove	p. 47
Show Me	p. 55
Bargaining	p. 57
On the Tel-Aviv Beach	p. 59
That the Lips	p. 61
Leah Giving Birth	p. 63
It's Me	p. 65
Stretching Out	p. 67
I Brought You	p. 69
Only the Green	p. 71
Cry Out	p. 73
Ah, the Terrible Bosom	p. 75
A Song of Autumn	p. 77
A Song	p. 79
The Place You'll Leave	p. 81
Vise	p. 83
Not Like the Ground Suddenly Sinking	p. 85
You Asked	p. 87
A Dream	p. 89
The Goat	p. 91
Morning Song	p. 93
Another Dream	p. 95
I Forgot How to Scream	p. 97
In the Library	p. 99
Angel on the Shore	p. 101
from The No (1991)
Confession	p. 105
The Sun Reveals Itself	p. 107
At Four-Thirty in the Afternoon	p. 109
After the Wedding	p. 111
Prayer	p. 113
Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man	p. 115
A Meeting with a Poet	p. 117
On the Fence	p. 121
Three Road Songs	p. 123
The End	p. 127
As One Gives Up	p. 129
A Russian Auto-Portrait	p. 131
Embrace	p. 133
When I Was in High School	p. 135
A Mediterranean Love Song	p. 137
I'll Ask for Your Hand	p. 139
The Tender Man	p. 141
A Year Later	p. 143
I Said	p. 145
Prove It	p. 147
In the Clown's Garden	p. 149
Two Songs on Jacob	p. 151
Into the Meddlesome Crowd	p. 153
Tel-Aviv	p. 155
The Painful Place	p. 157
from Night, Morning (2000)
Gift	p. 169
A Spring Poem	p. 171
Come, Children	p. 173
[Here is morning, it has arrived]	p. 175
Waking	p. 177
[If you stand on a hill]	p. 179
[Like this leaf, the one high up]	p. 181
Against the Dark	p. 183
To My Man	p. 185
A Mare	p. 187
[The slight and barely breaking smile]	p. 189
Songs of Aging	p. 191
from Food (2001)
Sonnet of the Sun-Dried Tomato	p. 199
Black Bread	p. 201
When She Tastes	p. 203
Like Dates	p. 205
Bubble Gum	p. 207
Chamomile Tea	p. 209
The Gods Need No	p. 211
On Rosh Hashanah	p. 213
A Blue Table	p. 215
from Convalescence (2004)
When I am Left Alone	p. 219
What is Impure	p. 221
The Jackals	p. 223
Here	p. 225
Strength	p. 227
Names	p. 229
Our Own State	p. 231
If You Can Manage to Remember	p. 235
A Little History	p. 239
A Present	p. 247
Solomon's Trial	p. 249
Because of the Black Night	p. 251
I Thought Death	p. 253
Because the Soul	p. 255
The Pen and the Brush	p. 257
In a Black Bed	p. 259
To Hands	p. 261
A Stream of Milk	p. 265
When You Stay Here	p. 267
Hibiscus	p. 269
Into Your Hands I Entrust My Spirit	p. 271
The Sea of Galilee's Water Level Has Risen	p. 273
Repair	p. 279
Questions and Answers: An exchange between David Shapiro and Hamutal Bar-Yosef	p. 281
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Night, Morning: Selected Poems of Hamutal Bar-yosef

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