The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai
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Here, 41
History, 156
Hour of Grace, The, 146
Huleikat—The Third Poem About Dicky, 179
Ibn Gabirol, 6
I Feel Just Fine in My Pants, 135
I Guard the Children, 165
I Know a Man, 173
I Lost My Identity Card, 148
In a Leap Year, 103
In a Right Angle: A Cycle of Quatrains, 27
Inside the Apple, 164
Instead of Words, 89
In the Full Severity of Mercy, 38
In the Garden, at the White Table, 123
In the Middle of This Century, 30
In the Morning It Was Still Night, 133
In the Old City, 136
I’ve Already Been Weaned, 123
I’ve Grown Very Hairy, 97
I Walked Past a House Where I Lived Once, 117
Jacob and the Angel, 40
Jasmine, 154
Jerusalem, 32
Jerusalem Is Full of Used Jews, 135
Jerusalem, 1967, 47
Jerusalem, 1985, 169
Jews in the Land of Israel, 87
Kibbutz Gevaram, 155
Last Word Is the Captain, The, 145
Late Marriage, 163
Letter, A, 102
Letter of Recommendation, A, 101
Like the Inner Wall of a House, 96
Look: Thoughts and Dreams, 7
Lost Objects, 128
Love Is Finished Again, 140
Love Song, 97
Luxury, A, 55
Man in His Life, A, 158
Man Like That on a Bald Mountain in Jerusalem, A, 121
Mayor, 35
Mutual Lullaby, A, 104
My Father in a White Space Suit, 100
My Mother Comes from the Days, 159
My Mother Died on Shavuot, 161
National Thoughts, 57
Near the Wall of a House, 126
1924, 143
1978 Reunion of Palmach Veterans at Ma‘ayan Harod, 129
North of Beersheba, 164
North of San Francisco, 166
Not Like a Cypress, 12
Now in the Storm, 59
Now She’s Breathing, 160
Now the Lifeguards Have All Gone Home, 125
Of Three or Four in a Room, 12
On Mount Muhraka, 148
On Some Other Planet You May Be Right, 151
On the Day I Left, 101
On the Day My Daughter Was Born No One Died, 131
Orchard, 162
Pace Like That, A, 144
Parents Left the Child, The, 139
A Pity. We Were Such a Good Invention, 57
Place Where We Are Right, The, 34
Poem for Arbor Day, 39
Poems for a Woman, 17
Poem Without an End, 142
Precise Woman, A, 154
Psalm, 91
Quiet Joy, A, 104
Real Hero, The, 156
Relativity, 141
Resurrection, 35
Ruhama, 179
“The Rustle of History’s Wings,” as They Used to Say Then, 128
Sandals, 168
Sea and the Shore, The, 176
Seven Laments for the War-Dead, 92
Shore of Ashkelon, The, 180
Six Poems for Tamar, 4
Smell of Gasoline Ascends in My Nose, The, 3
So I Went Down to the Ancient Harbor, 124
Song of Lies on Sabbath Eve, A, 138
Songs of Continuity, 115
Songs of Zion the Beautiful, 105
Sonnet from the Voyage, 21
Sort of an Apocalypse, 10
Statistics, 146
Such as Sorrow, 32
Summer Begins, 149
Summer Evening in the Jerusalem Mountains, 174
Summer or Its End, 36
Sweet Breakdowns of Abigail, The, 99
There Are Candles That Remember, 131
Threading, 59
Through Two Points Only One Straight Line Can Pass, 13
To a Convert, 99
To Bake the Bread of Yearning, 56
To My Love, Combing Her Hair, 117
Too Many, 39
Tourists, 137
Travels of the Last Benjamin of Tudela, 60
Try to Remember Some Details, 158
Two Disappeared into a House, 173
Two Photographs, 16
U.N. Headquarters in the High Commissioner’s House in Jerusalem, The, 1
Visit of the Queen of Sheba, The, 21
Way It Was, The, 88
We Did What We Had To, 182
We Loved Here, 8
What a Complicated Mess, 147
What Kind of Man, 171
When a Man’s Far Away from His Country, 121
When I Banged My Head on the Door, 118
When I Have a Stomachache, 134
When I Was a Child, 6
When I Was Young, the Whole Country Was Young, 116
Wildpeace, 88
Yehuda Ha-Levi, 5
Yom Kippur, 177
You Are So Small and Slight in the Rain, 120
You Can Rely on Him, 126
You Carry the Weight of Heavy Buttocks, 119
You Mustn’t Show Weakness, 127
You Too Got Tired, 34
About the Poet
Yehuda Amichai is one of the leading literary figures in Israel and a poet of international reputation. He has published eleven volumes of poetry in Hebrew; two novels, including Not of This Time, Not of This Place; and a book of short stories, The World Is a Room. His work has been translated into thirty-three languages. His collections of poetry in English translation include Poems, Songs of Jerusalem and Myself, Amen, Time, Love Poems, A Great Tranquillity: Questions and Answers, Poems of Jerusalem, Even a Fist Was Once an Open Palm with Fingers, and Yehuda Amichai: A Life of Poetry, 1948-1994. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife, Hana Sokolov Amichai. He has two sons, Ron and David, and a daughter, Emmanuella.
About the Translators
Chana Bloch’s books include two collections of poems, The Secrets of the Tribe and The Past Keeps Changing; a critical study, Spelling the Word: George Herbert and the Bible; and, in collaboration with Ariel Bloch, translations of A Dress of Fire and The Window: New and Selected Poems by Dahlia Ravikovitch, and The Song of Songs. She lives in Berkeley, and is Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Mills College.
Stephen Mitchell’s books include The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Job, Tao Te Ching, The Enlightened Heart, Parables and Portraits, The Enlightened Mind, The Gospel According to Jesus, A Book of Psalms, and the forthcoming Genesis: A New Translation of the Classical Biblical Stories. He lives with his wife, Vicki Chang, an acupuncturist, herbalist, and healer, in northern California.