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Open Closed Open: Poems
Open closed open. Before we are born, everything is open
in the universe without us. For as long as we live, everything is closed
within us. And when we die, everything is open again.
Open closed open. That's all we are.
--from "I WASN'T ONE OF THE SIX MILLION:
AND WHAT IS MY LIFE SPAN? OPEN CLOSED OPEN"
Book Details
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
- Publish Date: Nov 1st, 2006
- Pages: 204
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.98in - 5.38in - 0.59in - 0.50lb
- EAN: 9780156030502
- Categories: • Middle Eastern• Jewish• Epic
About the Author
YEHUDA AMICHAI (1924-2000) has long been considered one of the great poets of the twentieth century. He was the recipient of numerous awards, including the Israel Prize, his country's highest honor. His work has been translated into more than thirty-seven languages. Winner of the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
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What people are saying
Poet/Author @FlowerSongPress La Lengua Inside Me #Alegria Speaking con su Sombra @CLASHBooks We Are Possessed & La Belle Ajar & @UnsolicitedP Flashbacks&Verses
“I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.” — Yehuda Amichai https://t.co/jniBMDQg2c
Russian-American linguist, 1st amendment nerd, translator. Posts re: weird stuff, free speech, medieval lit, poetry & history of Semitic & Indo-European langs
My English translation of one of Yehuda Amichai's more famous earlier poems from Hebrew "The moon is sawing the clouds in two. Let hand-to-hand love bring me against you. We alone will make love where the two camps fight. Perhaps we can still make everything right...." https://t.co/KKEMvANxUD
Praise for this book
"He is one of our great poets . . . once one has heard his quiet, even tones, precise, distanced and passionate, one never forgets them."-The Times Literary Supplement "Open Closed Open is the uncanny record of genuine inspiration. Happy is the man who has so much in his soul."-Leon Wieseltier "Poets have always talked reverently about unlocking the human heart, but when "I read Amichai I wonder who before him actually managed it."-Ted Hughes
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What people are saying
Poet/Author @FlowerSongPress La Lengua Inside Me #Alegria Speaking con su Sombra @CLASHBooks We Are Possessed & La Belle Ajar & @UnsolicitedP Flashbacks&Verses
“I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.” — Yehuda Amichai https://t.co/jniBMDQg2c
Russian-American linguist, 1st amendment nerd, translator. Posts re: weird stuff, free speech, medieval lit, poetry & history of Semitic & Indo-European langs
My English translation of one of Yehuda Amichai's more famous earlier poems from Hebrew "The moon is sawing the clouds in two. Let hand-to-hand love bring me against you. We alone will make love where the two camps fight. Perhaps we can still make everything right...." https://t.co/KKEMvANxUD