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| Genre/Form: | Poetry Translations Translations into English |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Ibn Gabirol; Ibn Gabirol |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ibn Gabirol; Peter Cole |
| ISBN: | 0691070318 9780691070315 0691070326 9780691070322 |
| OCLC Number: | 44413774 |
| Awards: | Winner of American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Fiction 2010 |
| Description: | ix, 326 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Solomon Ibn Gabirol: an andalusian alphabet -- From the Diwan of Solomon Ibn Gabirol : Truth Seekers Turn -- Personal poems and oems of court : I'm Prince to the Poem -- My Words Are Driven -- Forget About "If" and "Maybe" -- Prologue to the Book of Grammar -- My Condition Worsened -- All My Desire -- The Apple: I -- The Rose -- See the Sun -- They Asked Me As Though They Were Mystified -- On Leaving Saragossa -- The Moon Was Cut -- My Heart Thinks As the Sun Comes Up -- The Palace Garden -- Winter with Its Ink -- The Garden -- The Field -- The Bee -- Isn't the Sky -- The Lily -- Now the Thrushes -- The Apple: II -- The Lightning -- The Lip of the Cup -- I'd Give Up My Soul Itself -- Tell the Boy -- Be Smart with Your Love -- All in Red -- Shards -- The Apple: III -- You've Stolen My Words -- The Altar of Song -- Tell the Prince -- What's Troubling You, My Soul -- The Pen -- What's With You -- God-Fearing Men -- Your Soul Strains and You Sigh -- Don't Look Back -- If This Life's Joy -- When You Find Yourself Angry -- I Am the Man -- And Don't Be Astonished -- The Tree -- If You'd Live Among Men -- Why Are You Frightened -- A Kite -- And Heart's Hollow -- I Love You -- Pooems of devotion : Before My Being -- Three Things -- I Look for You -- Forget Your Grief -- The Hour of Song -- Two Things Meet in Me -- Small in My Awe -- Open the Gate -- My Thoughts Asked Me -- Angels Amassing -- All the Creatures of Earth and Heaven -- He Dwells Forever -- And So It Came to Nothing -- Haven't I Hidden Your Name -- Lord Who Listens -- I've Made You My Refuge -- Lips for Bullocks -- I Take Great Pleasure -- Send Your Spirit -- You Lie in My Palace on Couches of Gold -- Kingdom's crown -- Notes -- Bibliography. |
| Series Title: | Lockert library of poetry in translation. |
| Other Titles: | Poems. |
| Responsibility: | translated from the Hebrew by Peter Cole. |
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Peter Cole, Winner of a 2010 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters Winner of the 2001 T.L.S-Porjes Prize for Translation, Jewish Book Council Peter Cole is the recipient of a 2007 MacArthur Fellowship "Taut, light-footed translations ... remarkable in the degree to which they carry over the distinct poetic complexities of the original while retaining a crisp, contemporary sense of American poetics ... the quality of motion and emotion comes through directly."--Publisher's Weekly "Cole's translations of Ibn Gabirol's poetry shimmer: they convey the power and mystique of the original in warm and wonderful phrases. Immediately accessible to the reader seeking beautiful locutions about love, longing, and desire... Cole's introduction is a gem, delineating what little is known about Ibn Gabirol the man and describing his world, his work, and his thought in ways that will delight."--Choice "Being medieval, these poems inevitably demonstrate the scope of religious language in their explorations of nature, drink, love, sex, boasting, friendship and loneliness. They are by turns, witty, satirical, elegiac--and always allusive."--Jane Liddell-King, Jewish Chronicle Read more...
