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Автор: Yonatan Berg
Издательство: Ingram
Серия: Wesleyan Poetry Series
Жанр произведения: Поэзия
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isbn: 9780819579140
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      FRAYED LIGHT

      WESLEYAN POETRY

      Yonatan Berg

      FRAYED LIGHT

      TRANSLATED BY JOANNA CHEN

      Wesleyan University Press

      Middletown, Connecticut

      Wesleyan University Press

      Middletown CT 06459

       www.wesleyan.edu/wespress

      © 2019 text by Yonatan Berg

      © 2019 English translation by Joanna Chen

      All rights reserved

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Designed and typeset in Merope by Eric M. Brooks

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      available upon request

      Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8195-7912-6

      Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8195-7913-3

      Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8195-7914-0

      FRONT COVER ILLUSTRATION:

      Anselm Kiefer. Velimir Chlebnikov, 2004 (detail)

      30 paintings: oil, emulsion, acrylic, lead and mixed media on canvas

      18 paintings: 75 × 130 inches (190.5 × 330 cm) each,

      12 paintings: 75 × 110 inches (190.5 × 280 cm) each

      Hall Collection, Courtesy of the Hall Art Foundation

      Photo: Stephen White, © Anselm Kiefer.

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      FOR

      GEULA &

      MAYA PAZ

      CONTENTS


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Part I | HANDS THAT ONCE HELD MANNA 1
Letter to the Reader 3
Unity 5
Particular Timing 6
The End of Naïveté 8
Map 10
Settlement 11
Ramallah through the Window of a Bus 13
Returning 15
Friday Market 17
Distance 18
Part II | DUST RISING FROM THE BLOW 21
Through the Eyes of Ramallah 23
The Mothers 24
After a Night in the Alley of Worshippers 25
Occupation of the Land 26
The Fighter Speaks 27
Jenin 28
Remembrance 29
Positive Identification 30
Hebron 31
Post-Trauma 32
After the War 33
Part III | AN ISAAC MOMENT 35
Improvisation 37
Odessa 39
A Late Landscape 41
Visitation 43
Father 44
Psalms 45
To My Mother 47
Part IV | WATER PIERCES ITSELF 49
Adam and Eve 51
Cain 52
Abel 53
Noah 54
Abraham 55
Sarah Expels Hagar