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Genre/Form: | Poetry poetry Translations Poésie Translations into English |
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Named Person: | Dan Pagis; Dan Pagis; Dan Pagis |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Dan Pagis; Stephen Mitchell |
ISBN: | 0520205391 9780520205390 |
OCLC Number: | 34583883 |
Language Note: | English translation from the Hebrew. |
Notes: | Originally published: Variable directions. San Francisco : North Point Press, 1989. |
Description: | xvi, 153 pages ; 21 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction / Robert Alter -- Autobiography -- Brothers -- The Souvenir -- Ein Leben -- Homily -- Siege -- The Last Ones -- In the Laboratory -- The Readiness -- The Caveman Is Not about to Talk -- A Lesson in Observation -- Spaceship -- Final Examination -- Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car -- An Opening to Satan -- Europe, Late -- The Roll Call -- Testimony -- Instructions for Crossing the Border -- Draft of a Reparations Agreement -- Footprints -- The Tortoise -- A Modest Sum -- Snake -- Tidings -- Bestiary -- Writers -- Tropical Greenhouse -- Information -- Real-Life Story -- Twelve Faces of the Emerald -- A Moment at the Louvre -- Lament for a Master of Style -- Encounters -- Fragments of an Elegy -- Twenty Years in the Valley -- Jason's Grave in Jerusalem -- An Ancient Complaint -- Memorial Evening -- Central Park, Twilight -- The Grand Duke of New York -- Early Winter, Long Island -- The Deceased Writer: Photograph in the Rain. |
Series Title: | Literature of the Middle East. |
Other Titles: | Poems. |
Responsibility: | translated by Stephen Mitchell ; with an introduction by Robert Alter. |
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