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The Dream of the Poem

Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492
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Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492

E-Book, Englisch, Band 60, 576 Seiten

Reihe: The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation

ISBN: 978-1-4008-2755-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)



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To the Reader xxi
Acknowledgments xxiii
Introduction 1

PART ONE: Muslim Spain (c. 950-c. 1140)

DUNASH BEN LABRAT 23

Fragment 24

Blessing for a Wedding 24

Drink, He Said 24

THE WIFE OF DUNASH 27

Will Her Love Remember? 27

YITZHAQ IBN MAR SHA'UL 28

A Fawn Sought in Spain 28

YOSEF IBN AVITOR 30

Lament for the Jews of Zion 31

A Curse 32

A Plea 33

Hymn for the New Year 33

YITZHAQ IBN KHALFOUN 35

Love in Me Stirs 35

A Gift of Cheese 36

SHMU'EL HANAGID 37

On Fleeing His City 38

The Miracle at Sea 40

The Apple 44

The Gazelle 45

Jasmine 45

In Fact I Love That Fawn 45

Mixed in Spain 46

Your Years Are Sleep 46

The House of Prayer 47

The Critique 48

On Lifting the Siege 49

The War with Yaddayir 50

On the Death of Isaac, His Brother 53

First War 58

I'd Suck Bitter Poison 59

Delay Your Speech 59

The Rich 59

People Welcome the Rich 60

If You Leave a Long-Loved Friend 60

You Who'd Be Wise 60

When You're Desperate 61

It's Heart That Discerns 61

He'll Bring You Trouble 61

Could Kings Right a People Gone Bad 61

What's Familiar Is Sometimes Distanced 62

One Who Works and Buys Himself Books 62

Three Things 62

Soar, Don't Settle 62

Man's Wisdom Is in What He Writes 63

Be Glad, She Said 63

The Multiple Troubles of Man 63

Gazing through the Night 64

Earth to Man 65

The Child at One or Two 65

I Quartered the Troops for the Night 66

Luxuries Ease 66

Why Repeat the Sins 67

At the Treasury 67

Know of the Limbs 67

You Mock Me Now 68

Time Defies and Betrays 68

The Market 68

YOSEF IBN HASDAI 70

The Qasida 71

SHELOMO IBN GABIROL 74

Truth Seekers Turn 75

I'm Prince to the Poem 76

Prologue to The Book of Grammar 76

They Asked Me as though They Were Mystified 77

See the Sun 78

On Leaving Saragossa 78

My Heart Thinks as the Sun Comes Up 81

Now the Thrushes 81

Winter with Its Ink 82

The Garden 82

The Field 83

The Bee 83

I'd Give Up My Soul Itself 84

Be Smart with Your Love 84

All in Red 85

You've Stolen My Words 85

The Altar of Song 85

The Pen 86

If You'd Live among Men 86

I Am the Man 86

Heart's Hollow 88

I Love You 89

Before My Being 90

Three Things 90

I Look for You 91

Open the Gate 91

The Hour of Song 92

Send Your Spirit 92

Angels Amassing 93

And So It Came to Nothing 94

He Dwells Forever 95

Haven't I Hidden Your Name 97

Lord Who Listens 98

I've Made You My Refuge 98

You Lie in My Palace 99

From Kingdom's Crown 99

YITZHAQ IBN GHIYYAT 111

My Wandering 112

YOSEF IBN SAHL 114

The Fleas 114

Your Poem, My Friend 115

A Complaint about the Rich 115

LEVI IBN ALTABBAAN 117

Utter His Oneness 117

Exposed 118

BAHYA IBN PAQUDA 119

Duties of the Heart 119

MOSHE IBN EZRA 121

Weak with Wine 122

The Garden 123

Bring Me My Cup 123

A Shadow 123

The Fawn 124

The Garden, the Miser 124

The Pen 125

Heart's Desire 125

That Bitter Day 127

Let Man Remember 127

The Dove 127

Why Does Time Hound Me So 128

Ancient Graves 128

If You See Me 129

Ivory Palaces 129

The World 130

My Heart's Secret 130

I Roused My Thoughts from Slumber 130

Let Man Wail 132

On the Death of His Son 132

The Blind 133

The Gazelle's Sigh 133

Gold 134

The Day to Come 134

At the Hour of Closing 135

YOSEF IBN TZADDIQ 137

A Wedding Night's Consolation 137

Lady of Grace 139

SHELOMO IBN TZAQBEL 141

Lines Inscribed on an Apple 142

Note to a Suitor Now Perplexed 142

A Fawn with Her Lashes 142

YEHUDA HALEVI 143

That Night a Gazelle 145

A Doe Washes 146

If Only Dawn 146

That Day while I Had Him 146

Another Apple 146

To Ibn al-Mu'allim 147

If Only I Could Give 147

Epithalamium 149

When a Lone Silver Hair 149

If Time 150

Inscriptions on Bowls 150

Four Riddles 150

Departure 151

On Friendship and Time 152

Slaves of Time 154

Heal Me, Lord 154

True Life 154

The Morning Stars 155

His Thresholds 155

Where Will I Find You 155

You Knew Me 156

A Doe Far from Home 156

A Dove in the Distance 157

You Slept, Then Trembling Rose 158

Love's Dwelling 158

Lord, 159

If Only I Could Be 160

Won't You Ask, Zion 162

My Heart Is in the East 164

How Long Will You Lie 164

Heart at Sea 165

My Soul Longed 167

Has a Flood Washed the World 167

In the Heart 168

Above the Abyss 168

Time Has Tossed Me 168

Be with Me 169

Along the Nile 169

This Breeze 170

PART TWO: Christian Spain and Provence (c. 1140-1492)

AVRAHAM IBN EZRA 173

Fortune's Stars 174

How It Is 175

A Cloak 175

The Flies 176

World Poetry 176

All the Rest Is Commentary 177

I. The Flood 177

II. Reading Exodus 177

III. The Miracle (at Lehi) 177

Pleasure 177

In Place 177

The Wedding Night, Continued 178

An Ancient Battle 179

Lament for Andalusian Jewry 181

Elegy for a Son 182

My Hunger 184

Sent Out from the Glory 184

Lord, I Have Heard 184

My God, 185

To the Soul 185

Blessèd Is He Who Fears 186

I Bow Down 188

Children of Exile 189

I Call to Him 189

You Whose Hearts Are Asleep 190

YITZHAQ IBN EZRA 192

On the Death of Yehuda HaLevi 193

Over His Boy 194

Conversion 195

YOSEF QIMHI 196

Love for the World 197

Always Be Vigilant 197

Consider This 197

Suffer Your Sorrow 197

On Wisdom 198

If You Hear Someone Insult You 198

Wait and Be Saved 198

Wealth 199

Silence and Speech 199

YOSEF IBN ZABARA 200

Sweet and Sour 201

My Ex 201

Look at These People 202

The Physician 202

ANATOLI BAR YOSEF 203

The Test of Poetry 203

Motto 204

YEHUDA IBN SHABBETAI 205

From The Offering of Yehuda the Misogynist 206

I. Pharaoh's Wisdom 206

II. The Misogynist in Love 206

III. A Raised Offering 207

IV. Two Things 207

V. The Sage Lies 207

YEHUDA ALHARIZI 208

Born to Baseness 209

The Hypocrite 210

The Jerk 210

A Miser in Mosul 210

The Miser 211

On Zion's Holy Hill 211

Boys: Two Poems 212

I. If Amram's Son 212

II. An Answer 212

Masters of Song 212

Measure for Measure 212

A Lover Wandered 213

How Long, My Fawn 213

Curses' Composition 213

A Flashing Sword 214

Palindrome for a Patron 214

A Poem No Patron Has Ever Heard 215

Admiration for the Patron Again I'll Prove 215

Two Poems on Karaism 215

I. For 215

II. Against 216

Virtue 216

I'll Set Out a Verse and Lay the Foundation. 216

YA'AQOV BEN ELAZAR 218

The Hypocrite's Beard 219

Four Poems on Subtle Love 220

I. The Doe 220

II. A Kiss 220

III. A Lover's Transgression 220

IV. Spats and Squabbles 220

AVRAHAM IBN HASDAI 221

Watch Out 222

ProPortion 222

Age as Author 222

Which Is More Bitter 223

The Lying Word 223

The Monk's Advice 223

Advice for a Future King 223

I. Wisdom's Mantle 223

II. Don't Believe 224

III. The Hyssop and the Cedar 224

MEIR HALEVI ABULAFIA 225

Plea for a Tax Break 226

(L)attitude 226

Fighting Time 226

YITZHAQ HASNIRI 227

On the Worship of Wood and a Fool 228

MESHULLAM DEPIERA 229

The Poet 230

On a New Book by Maimonides 230

Before You Take Up Your Pen 230

How Could You Press for Song 231

As One with the Morning Stars 232

MOSHE BEN NAHMAN (NAHMANIDES) 233

Before the World Ever Was 234

From "One Hundred Verses" 237

SHEM TOV IBN FALAQERA 240

Career Counseling 241

A Mystery 241

On Poets and Poetry 241

Why God Made You 242

The Fool Thinks 242

Poverty's War 242

YITZHAQ IBN SAHULA 243

The Cynic Speaks 244

On Humility 244

AVRAHAM ABULAFIA 245

From The Book of the Letter 247

AVRAHAM BEN SHMU'EL 252

To Whom among the Avengers of Blood 253

YOSEF GIQATILLA 254

The Nut Garden 255

TODROS ABULAFIA 256

I've Labored in Love 258

She Said She Wanted 258

The Day You Left 258

That Fine Gazelle 259

They Fight with Me over Desire 259

That Girl Emerged 259

May My Tongue 259

There's Nothing Wrong in Wanting a Woman 260

Strong Poet, Weak Poet 260

Plaster and Pearls 261

Nothing Left to Say 261

Teachers and Writers 261

Before the King 262

My King 262

Poems from Prison 262

I. As Love Lives 262

II. Treacherous Time 263

III. The Filthy Lay in Darkness with Me 263

IV. My Rings Have Fallen 263

V. Is It the Lord 264

Time Tries as I Drift 264

The Sea Casts Up Mire and Mud 264

On a Bible Written by Shmu'el HaNagid 265

Time Spreads Its Nets 265

Old Age Is Double-Edged 266

Perversion's Pigeons 266

My Thinking Wove 266

The Lord Is Good and So I'm Tormented 267

Defiled and Pure Are One 267

On Hearing Church Bells 267

I Take Delight in My Cup and Wine 268

NAHUM 270

Winter Has Waned 270

AVRAHAM HABEDERSHI 272

Why the Poet Refuses to Fight 273

Your Muse 273

Lament for a Foe 274

The Poet's Distress 274

YITZHAQ HAGORNI 275

Would You Tell Me 276

HaGorni's Lament 276

YEDAYA HAPENINI 278

The World Is a Raging Sea 279

AVNER [OF BURGOS?] 281

The Last Words of My Desire 282

QALONYMOS BEN QALONYMOS 284

On Becoming a Woman 285

YITZHAK POLGAR 287

Faith's Philosophy, Philosophy's Faith 288

SHEM TOV ARDUTIEL (SANTOB DE CARRIÓN) 289

From The Battles of the Pen and the Scissors 290

I. Writer, You Hold 290

II. To Praise the Pen 291

III. Tomorrow I'll Write 291

IV. Enter the Scissors 291

V. Work I Was Cut Out to Do 291

VI. The Pen Fights Back 292

VII. The Scissors Longed 292

SHMU'EL IBN SASSON 293

Man's Peril 294

Why Most Poets Are Poor 294

They Will Be Tried 296

MOSHE NATAN 297

Prison 297

From "The Ten Commandments" 298

Clothes Make the Man 298

SHELOMO DEPIERA 299

Thinkers with Thinking 301

The Bee and the Grumbler 301

Medieval Arthritis 301

Winter in Monzón 302

After Conversion 303

Tabernacles: A Prayer 303

A Prayer for Rain and Sustenance 303

This Year's Wine: 1417 304

VIDAL BENVENISTE 305

Advice from Wives 306

What Girls Want 306

To a Poet-Friend Too Much in Need 307

Poems for a Doe in a Garden 307

A Thank You Note 308

Think about This 308

Beyond Words 308

My Son, before You Were Born 309

To One Who Said His Heart for Verse Was Adamant 309

Clarity 309

What Goes Around Comes. 309

The Tongue Speaks and the Hand Records 310

SHELOMO HALEVI (PABLO DE SANTA MARIA) 312

Memory's Wine 313

SHELOMO BONAFED 314

World Gone Wrong 315

A Vision of Ibn Gabirol 317

Wherever You Go 318

YITZHAQ ALAHDAB 320

Inflation 320

Another Flea 321

Security 321

The Elderly Asked if the Doctors 321

As Sorcerers Spread 321

Being Poor 322

State of the Art; or, Poetry Wails 322

Renaissance Man 323

MOSHE REMOS 326

Last Words 327

'ELI BEN YOSEF [HAVILLIO?] 330

Who Soars 330

MOSHE IBN HABIB 331

Account 332

You Come to the House of God 332

SA'ADIA IBN DANAAN 333

Enmity Smolders 334

Hordes of Readers 334

Mixed Messenger 334

She Trapped Me 334

Chiasmus for a Doe 335

Notes 337

Glossary 527


Peter Cole is a poet and translator of Hebrew and Arabic poetry. He has received numerous awards for his work, including prizes from the Times Literary Supplement and the Modern Language Association, and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. Winner of the 2004 PEN-America Translation Award, he lives in Jerusalem, where he coedits Ibis Editions. He was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 2007.



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