Carcanet Press - The Window: New and Selected Poems

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Dahlia Ravikovitch is Israel's leading woman poet. Born in Ramat Gan in 1936, she has published five volumes of poetry, a book of short stories, and two books of children's verse.

Contents:

Foreword by Robert Alter
Translator's Note

The Love of an orange (1959)
On the Road at Night
The Tearing
The Commandment
A Wicked Hand
Clockwork Doll
Painting
A Small Woman
Delight
The Land of the Setting Sun
Night Sorrow
Someone to Save Him
Around Jerusalem
Behind the Rain

A Hard Winter (1964)
Requiem after Seventeen Years
Dust
Magic
Time Caught in a Net
Distant Land
Heartbreak in the Park
Trying
Trying Again
Heron
Hills of Salt
The Raging Waters
Mahlon and Chilion
A Hard Winter
Abuse
They Told Me to Bring
A great tremor
The Blue West

The Third Book (1969)
Surely you Remember
Two Songs of the Garden
Australia
Now the Moon
Vanilla
The Marionette
Pure Memory
Imagination is a Boundless Thing
The Horns of Hittin
Pride
A Dress of Fire
A Personal Opinion
In Chad and Cameroon 60
How Hong Kong was Destroyed
In the Right Wind
The End of the Fall
Even a Thousand Years

Deep Calleth Unto Deep (1976)
Day Unto Day Uttereth Speech
Midnight Song
Poem of Explanations
Sand
Deep Calleth Unto Deep
In Jerusalem
Like Rachel
King over Israel
Impoverishment
From Day to Night
the Sound of Birds at Noon

Real Love (1986)
Iddo Wakes Up
The Glass pavilion
Little Child's Head on the Pillow
The Beginning of Silence
Cinderella in the Kitchen
The Finish Line
A Declaration for the future
Rough Draft
Requiem
Gladi in Richmond
Blood Heifer
You Can't Kill a Baby Twice
Hovering at Low Altitude
New Zealand
It Will Certainly Come
Birdy
Light and Darkness
The Window

Notes to the Poems
Biograhical Notes

Dahlia Ravikovitch

Dahlia Ravikovitch was one of Israel's leading woman poets. Born in Ramat Gan in 1936, she published five volumes of poetry, a book of short stories, and two books of children's verse. She studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and later worked as a journalist and teacher. She was the ... read more

Chana Bloch

Chana Bloch is Professor of English Literature and Chairman of the English Department at Mills College. She has published a book of poems The Secrets of the Tribe ; a critical study, Spelling the Word: George Herbert and the Bible; and two volumes of translations from Hebrew, A Dress of Fire: ... read more

Awards won by Chana Bloch Winner, 2012 Meringoff Poetry Award

[Ravikovitch's] poetry deals overwhelmingly with extreme states of personal life: desolation, loss, estrangement, breakdown...Landscape, history, the Bible, and best of all, a caustic mother wit: all figure behind the shaken self...She is a poet of wit, severe and costly, and this saves her, at least in the poems...Her language bristles with sharpness...To read these poems is to see the whole world pressed into one imperilled being, and then, through the calming maneuvers of imagination, to watch that being glide past it's own squalor and smallness
Irving Howe, The New Republic
The libation that Dahlia Ravikovitch pours is of a sparkling purity and lyric freshness. Her song is both ancient and new, and it is unutterably poignant. Chana Bloch has made a loving translation from the original Hebrew. No poetry in recent years has moved me more
Stanley Kunitz

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The Window: New and Selected Poems Dahlia Ravikovitch Edited by Chana Bloch Translated by Chana Bloch Categories: Jewish Imprint: Sheep Meadow Press Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Hardback (120 pages) (Pub. Aug 2011) 9780935296815 Out of Stock Description Author Contents Awards Reviews Dahlia Ravikovitch is Israel's leading woman poet. Born in Ramat Gan in 1936, she has published five volumes of poetry, a book of short stories, and two books of children's verse. Contents: Foreword by Robert Alter Translator's Note The Love of an orange (1959) On the Road at Night The Tearing The Commandment A Wicked Hand Clockwork Doll Painting A Small Woman Delight The Land of the Setting Sun Night Sorrow Someone to Save Him Around Jerusalem Behind the Rain A Hard Winter (1964) Requiem after Seventeen Years Dust Magic Time Caught in a Net Distant Land Heartbreak in the Park Trying Trying Again Heron Hills of Salt The Raging Waters Mahlon and Chilion A Hard Winter Abuse They Told Me to Bring A great tremor The Blue West The Third Book (1969) Surely you Remember Two Songs of the Garden Australia Now the Moon Vanilla The Marionette Pure Memory Imagination is a Boundless Thing The Horns of Hittin Pride A Dress of Fire A Personal Opinion In Chad and Cameroon 60 How Hong Kong was Destroyed In the Right Wind The End of the Fall Even a Thousand Years Deep Calleth Unto Deep (1976) Day Unto Day Uttereth Speech Midnight Song Poem of Explanations Sand Deep Calleth Unto Deep In Jerusalem Like Rachel King over Israel Impoverishment From Day to Night the Sound of Birds at Noon Real Love (1986) Iddo Wakes Up The Glass pavilion Little Child's Head on the Pillow The Beginning of Silence Cinderella in the Kitchen The Finish Line A Declaration for the future Rough Draft Requiem Gladi in Richmond Blood Heifer You Can't Kill a Baby Twice Hovering at Low Altitude New Zealand It Will Certainly Come Birdy Light and Darkness The Window Notes to the Poems Biograhical Notes Dahlia Ravikovitch Dahlia Ravikovitch was one of Israel's leading woman poets. Born in Ramat Gan in 1936, she published five volumes of poetry, a book of short stories, and two books of children's verse. She studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and later worked as a journalist and teacher. She was the ... read more Chana Bloch Chana Bloch is Professor of English Literature and Chairman of the English Department at Mills College. She has published a book of poems The Secrets of the Tribe ; a critical study, Spelling the Word: George Herbert and the Bible; and two volumes of translations from Hebrew, A Dress of Fire: ... read more Awards won by Chana Bloch Winner, 2012 Meringoff Poetry Award [Ravikovitch's] poetry deals overwhelmingly with extreme states of personal life: desolation, loss, estrangement, breakdown...Landscape, history, the Bible, and best of all, a caustic mother wit: all figure behind the shaken self...She is a poet of wit, severe and costly, and this saves her, at least in the poems...Her language bristles with sharpness...To read these poems is to see the whole world pressed into one imperilled being, and then, through the calming maneuvers of imagination, to watch that being glide past it's own squalor and smallness Irving Howe, The New Republic The libation that Dahlia Ravikovitch pours is of a sparkling purity and lyric freshness. Her song is both ancient and new, and it is unutterably poignant. Chana Bloch has made a loving translation from the original Hebrew. No poetry in recent years has moved me more Stanley Kunitz	Share this... Quick Links Carcanet Poetry Carcanet Classics Carcanet Fiction Carcanet Film Lives and Letters PN Review Video Carcanet Celebrates 50 Years! The Carcanet Blog We've Moved! read more Books of the Year read more One Little Room: Peter McDonald read more Collected Poems: Mimi Khalvati read more Invisible Dog: Fabio Morbito, translated by Richard Gwyn read more Dante's Purgatorio: Philip Terry read more
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The Window: New and Selected Poems

Dahlia Ravikovitch

Edited by Chana Bloch

Translated by Chana Bloch