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The first book-length collection in English of this major Israeli poet.
Finalist for the 2018 National Jewish Book Award in Poetry presented by the Jewish Book Council
from "At Your Side"
Years I walked at your side
like our prophet Isaiah
barefoot naked and bare
I will put on no cover
until you see me
until you recognize an other
one person
at least
and so know yourself as well
Mordechai Geldman came of age as a poet in the seventies, an auspicious and transformative time in the development of modern Hebrew literature, as poets and writers rejected the flowery, the hyperbolic, and the sentimental and opted instead for a more direct and intimate speech. While his early poems tended to rely on linguistic exploration, his vision soon turned inward, as he came to favor the simple, the true, the authentic. Geldman's poems are direct and accessible, touching on and revealing the divine and the sacred in the so-called mundane.
Contents
Introduction
Tsipi Keller and Ruth Kartun-Blum
I Wrote Write Will Write: Author's Preface to the Hebrew Edition
From New Poems (2010)
Voice
Poems from Amirim
Missing (1)
Missing (2)
Who Do You Think You Are
Loss
Carob
[ I had a revelation ]
The body
I Don't Know
Mangs
Tattoo
At Your Side
Signal, Flicker
What Will I Tell
Poems about My Left Eye
Poems of the River: Leave Behind
[ All at once ]
An Ecological Poem
Rivers
Slowly
Word
Green
[ I've forgotten my aging ]
Buddies
A Short Story
Water
[ The bird dives ]
Only a Moment
I Wanted to Tell You
From Tamir's Poems (2007)
Inscribed
Let Me
Similes
True Compassion
Gift
60
Cell Phone
The Spirit and the Soul
Worry
I Dreamt You
Another Bracelet
Deer
The Date
The Son
Eurydice
Rumi
There's Love
And Now
Text Messaging Poems
Sixty
How could I, Tamir
From Poem of the Heart (2004)
Home Poems
At First I Wished to Speak Up
Form
The Neurotic's Poem
[ The voice of a bird ]
Poet
Oh My Love
Love Poem
N. B.
The Café
From Oh My Dear Wall (2000)
[ In the depths of childhood ]
[ In the end I couldn't save her ]
[ Before she died ]
Firing Squad
Chu
The Wall
Blue Head
The Sinai Desert Flies
A Lone Tourist
Hair
Putsina
Role
From Book of Ask (1997)
Another Poet
Friendly Dragon
Holy Ground
Dolinger
Book
Opportunity
I Won't Travel This Summer
Abused Neighbor
Yes
My Death 1
My Death 2
Waste
From the cycle "Summer Sequence"
Almost Flowers
From Eye (1993)
The Last Interview
Line
Bomb
Nocturnes
The Ceiling's Looking Glass
Porn 6
The Hottentot Venus (Porn 8)
From Milano (1988)
Café
Guy with a Beard and a Ponytail
Human Engineering
Buddha of the Light
Paris
Time
Spring
Poplar in the Window
Leaves
Acknowledgments
About Mordechai Geldman
About Tsipi Keller
About Ruth Kartun-Blum
Index of Titles and First Lines
