Full Description
One of Israel's most celebrated poets, Tuvia Ruebner has been awarded every major literary prize in Israel, including the Prime Minister's Prize and the prestigious Israel Prize (2008), and numerous awards in Germany, including the Konrad Adenauer Literature Prize (2012). Born in Slovakia, he is a prolific poet who wrote his first works in German, and began writing in Hebrew in 1953. His work is pervaded with a sense of both public and personal loss, including that of his first homeland, culture, and family in the Holocaust, and later on, his first wife and son. He immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1941, and eventually settled in Kibbutz Merhavia where he lives today.
Contents
Late Beauty: Table of Contents
Introduction
ON TIME
URUGUAY-GHANA 2010
POSTCARD TO MY SOUL MATE
POSTCARD FROM THE HEBRON AREA
POSTCARD FROM VIENNA
POSTCARD FROM PRESSBURG-BRATISLAVA
POSTCARD FROM ŠAŠTIN: AUTUMN BONFIRES
POSTCARD FROM ZURICH
POSTCARD FROM LONDON
POSTCARD FROM JERUSALEM
THE AMBASSADORS
THE YOUTHS
THE SMILE
THE DESCENT FROM THE CROSS
ANGELUS NOVUS
THE FALL
HORSE AND RIDER
THREE CHINESE SKETCHES
PICTURE AND DIALOGUE
TWO ZEN PICTURES
FOUR JAPANESE WOODCUTS: OLD AGE
CHALK CLIFFS ON RUEGEN
THE SHIP
WHY
WITH A BLUE HEADBAND
BLACK WATERCOLORS
THE LAST SUPPER
MY FATHER
HOME
A PHOTO OF MY SISTER IN THE JEWISH MIXED-AGE CLASSROOM, SASTIN, APRIL 1942
THE GREAT DAYS OF THE CENTURY
I DIDN'T EXPECT
RAINY DAY AND A PHOTO
THE SHINING DAY
ORPHIC LIGHT
PHOTO
HISTORY
CHANGES
Notes to the Poems
