Yehuda Amichai is Israel's most popular poet as well as a literary figure of international reputation. In this revised and expanded collection, renowned translators Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell have selected Amichai's most beloved and enduring poems, including forty new poems from his recent work. fromTourists:Once I was sitting on the steps near the gate at David's Citadel and I put down my two heavy baskets beside me. A group of tourists stood there around their guide, and I became their point of reference. "You see that man over there with the baskets? A little to the right of his head there's an arch from the Roman period. A little to the right of his head." "But he's moving, he's moving!" I said to myself: Redemption will come only when they are told, "Do you see that arch over there from the Roman period? It doesn't matter, but near it, a little to the left and then down a bit, there's a man who has just bought fruit and vegetables for his family."

Foreword
God Has Pity on Kindergarten Children	p. 1
The U.N. Headquarters in the High Commissioner's House in Jerusalem	p. 1
Autobiography, 1952	p. 2
The Smell of Gasoline Ascends in My Nose	p. 3
Six Poems for Tamar	p. 4
Yehuda Ha-Levi	p. 5
Ibn Gabirol	p. 6
When I Was a Child	p. 6
Look: Thoughts and Dreams	p. 7
From We Loved Here	p. 8
God's Hand in the World	p. 10
Sort of an Apocalypse	p. 10
And That Is Your Glory	p. 11
Of Three or Four in a Room	p. 12
Not Like a Cypress	p. 12
Through Two Points Only One Straight Line Can Pass	p. 13
Half the People in the World	p. 14
For My Birthday	p. 15
Two Photographs	p. 16
Poems for a Woman	p. 17
Children's Procession	p. 20
Ballad of the Washed Hair	p. 20
Sonnet from the Voyage	p. 21
The Visit of the Queen of Sheba	p. 21
From In a Right Angle: A Cycle of Quatrains	p. 27
As for the World	p. 29
In the Middle of This Century	p. 30
Farewell	p. 31
Such as Sorrow	p. 32
Jerusalem	p. 32
Before	p. 33
And as Far as Abu Ghosh	p. 33
You Too Got Tired	p. 34
The Place Where We Are Right	p. 34
Mayor	p. 35
Resurrection	p. 35
From Summer or Its End	p. 36
In the Full Severity of Mercy	p. 38
Too Many	p. 39
Poem for Arbor Day	p. 39
Jacob and the Angel	p. 40
Here	p. 41
Elegy on an Abandoned Village	p. 42
The Elegy on the Lost Child	p. 43
Jerusalem, 1967	p. 47
The Bull Returns	p. 55
A Luxury	p. 55
To Bake the Bread of Yearning	p. 56
National Thoughts	p. 57
A Pity. We Were Such a Good Invention	p. 57
Elegy	p. 58
Threading	p. 59
Now in the Storm	p. 59
Travels of the Last Benjamin of Tudela	p. 60
Jews in the Land of Israel	p. 87
Wildpeace	p. 88
The Way It Was	p. 88
Instead of Words	p. 89
Gifts of Love	p. 90
Ballad in the Streets of Buenos Aires	p. 90
Psalm	p. 91
Seven Laments for the War-Dead	p. 92
Like the Inner Wall of a House	p. 96
Love Song	p. 97
I've Grown Very Hairy	p. 97
A Dog After Love	p. 98
A Bridge Without a Dowry	p. 98
The Sweet Breakdowns of Abigail	p. 99
To a Convert	p. 99
My Father in a White Space Suit	p. 100
A Letter of Recommendation	p. 101
On the Day I Left	p. 101
A Letter	p. 102
In a Leap Year	p. 103
A Quiet Joy	p. 104
A Mutual Lullaby	p. 104
From Songs of Zion the Beautiful	p. 105
Songs of Continuity	p. 115
At the Monastery of Latroun	p. 115
When I Was Young, the Whole Country Was Young	p. 116
I Walked Past a House Where I Lived Once	p. 117
To My Love, Combing Her Hair	p. 117
The Diameter of the Bomb	p. 118
When I Banged My Head on the Door	p. 118
You Carry the Weight of Heavy Buttocks	p. 119
Advice for Good Love	p. 119
You Are So Small and Slight in the Rain	p. 120
A Man Like That on a Bald Mountain in Jerusalem	p. 121
When a Man's Far Away from His Country	p. 121
The Eve of Rosh Hashanah	p. 122
I've Already Been Weaned	p. 123
In the Garden, at the White Table	p. 123
From the Book of Esther I Filtered the Sediment	p. 124
So I Went Down to the Ancient Harbor	p. 124
Now the Lifeguards Have All Gone Home	p. 125
Near the Wall of a House	p. 126
You Can Rely on Him	p. 126
You Mustn't Show Weakness	p. 127
Lost Objects	p. 128
Forgetting Someone	p. 128
"The Rustle of History's Wings," as They Used to Say Then	p. 128
1978 Reunion of Palmach Veterans at Ma'ayan Harod	p. 129
An Eternal Window	p. 130
There Are Candles That Remember	p. 131
On the Day My Daughter Was Born No One Died	p. 131
All These Make a Dance Rhythm	p. 132
In the Morning It Was Still Night	p. 133
A Child Is Something Else Again	p. 133
When I Have a Stomachache	p. 134
I Feel Just Fine in My Pants	p. 135
Jerusalem Is Full of Used Jews	p. 135
Ecology of Jerusalem	p. 136
In the Old City	p. 136
Tourists	p. 137
An Arab Shepherd Is Searching for His Goat on Mount Zion	p. 138
A Song of Lies on Sabbath Eve	p. 138
The Parents Left the Child	p. 139
Love Is Finished Again	p. 140
End of Summer in the Judean Mountains	p. 140
Relativity	p. 141
Poem Without an End	p. 142
A Great Tranquility: Questions and Answers	p. 142
1924	p. 143
Half-Sized Violin	p. 143
A Pace Like That	p. 144
The Box	p. 145
The Last Word Is the Captain	p. 145
Statistics	p. 146
The Hour of Grace	p. 146
What a Complicated Mess	p. 147
I Lost My Identity Card	p. 148
On Mount Muhraka	p. 148
Summer Begins	p. 149
Hamadiya	p. 150
At the Seashore	p. 150
On Some Other Planet You May Be Right	p. 151
Autumn Rain in Tel Aviv	p. 152
A Flock of Sheep Near the Airport	p. 152
Almost a Love Poem	p. 153
They Are All Dice	p. 153
A Precise Woman	p. 154
Jasmine	p. 154
Kibbutz Gevaram	p. 155
History	p. 156
The Real Hero	p. 156
At the Maritime Museum	p. 157
Try to Remember Some Details	p. 158
A Man in His Life	p. 158
My Mother Comes from the Days	p. 159
Now She's Breathing	p. 160
My Mother Died on Shavuot	p. 161
The Body Is the Cause of Love	p. 162
Orchard	p. 162
Late Marriage	p. 163
Inside the Apple	p. 164
North of Beersheba	p. 164
I Guard the Children	p. 165
North of San Francisco	p. 166
Fall in Connecticut	p. 167
Sandals	p. 168
Jerusalem, 1985	p. 169
Evidence	p. 169
The Course of a Life	p. 170
What Kind of Man	p. 171
The Greatest Desire	p. 172
Two Disappeared into a House	p. 173
I Know a Man	p. 173
Between	p. 173
Summer Evening in the Jerusalem Mountains	p. 174
At the Beach	p. 175
The Sea and the Shore	p. 176
Autumn Is Near and the Memory of My Parents	p. 176
Yom Kippur	p. 177
Beginning of Autumn in the Hills of Ephraim	p. 178
Ruhama	p. 179
Huleikat - The Third Poem about Dicky	p. 179
The Shore of Ashkelon	p. 180
Fields of Sunflowers	p. 181
First Rain on a Burned Car	p. 181
We Did What We Had To	p. 182
Notes	p. 185
Acknowledgments	p. 191
Index of Titles	p. 193
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