Full Description
"The Milk Underground possesses the clarity we associate with the films that shape our lives. He is the auteur of angst, the director of a cast of characters destined to haunt our dreams, the one who knows best how to frame his, and our, experience. Someck is one of the most inventive poets around."-Christopher Merrill, Necessites "In poetic language that is both conversational and lyrical, Inbar and Manaster masterfully and seamlessly translate Someck's wide-ranging, horrified and loving vision."-Aliki Barnstone Ronny Someck was born in Baghdad in 1951 and came to Israel as a young child. His work has been translated into forty-one languages.
Contents
Table of Contents
A Patriotic Poem ........................................................................................................................ 2
40 ................................................................................................................................................. 4
Courting ...................................................................................................................................... 6
4 Pieces of Advice for a Dancing Girl ...................................................................................... 8
A Fifth Piece of Advice for a Dancing Girl ........................................................................... 10
Corks ......................................................................................................................................... 12
Stupid Beauty ........................................................................................................................... 14
In Front of Aphrodite .............................................................................................................. 17
One-Man Mafia........................................................................................................................ 20
Alcoholic Alphabet .................................................................................................................. 22
A Footnote to a Pedagogical Poem ......................................................................................... 25
Kitchen Sink Drama ................................................................................................................ 28
December 28 ............................................................................................................................. 31
Ararat Express ......................................................................................................................... 33
Transparent .............................................................................................................................. 35
That ........................................................................................................................................... 38
Abraham on the Way to the Sacrifice .................................................................................... 40
Biting into her Beauty ............................................................................................................. 42
John Doe ................................................................................................................................... 44
The Milk Underground ........................................................................................................... 47
Mr. Auschwitz .......................................................................................................................... 49
Beaten ....................................................................................................................................... 51
Guillotine .................................................................................................................................. 53
Cesar Vallejo or 12 Lines on the Bread of Shame ................................................................ 56
A Love Poem for Wislawa Szymborska ................................................................................ 58
Field Sentences. Nature Poems. ..................................................................................... 60
Five Cypresses .......................................................................................................................... 62
The Milk Underground - ii
Butterflies from Mount Saint Savino ..................................................................................... 64
Blackbird .................................................................................................................................. 66
Two blackbirds ........................................................................................................................ 68
Beneath the Aetna Volcano and a Meditation on God as the Greatest Erotic Director ... 70
Street Sentences. City Poems. ......................................................................................... 73
Baghdad .................................................................................................................................... 75
Katmandu. Above the Rice Fields ......................................................................................... 78
Barcelona. A Bird on Balcony's Railing ............................................................................... 80
San Francisco. A Sonnet on a City Left Without Locks ..................................................... 82
Tel-Aviv at Night ..................................................................................................................... 85
