After the First Rain

by Dor, Moshe; Goldberg, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9780815605249
• ISBN10: 0815605242
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-06-01
• Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
It Will Be a Monotonous Poem	p. 1
Palestinian	p. 3
Arriving at the Island	p. 4
The Houses That Were Mine	p. 6
Seven Laments for the War-Dead	p. 7
Wildpeace	p. 12
Looking Toward Jerusalem	p. 13
She Was in Jerusalem	p. 14
Drought	p. 16
Eucalyptus	p. 18
Army Service at Ma'aleh Ya'ir	p. 19
You Have to Abandon Jerusalem	p. 20
If Only People Could See Us	p. 21
Taste of Salt and Reckoning	p. 22
An Old Poem and Twelve Thoughts About a Dove	p. 23
Negotiation	p. 27
Peace	p. 29
Data Processing 34	p. 30
Cedar Trees Hotel, Metula	p. 32
The War and the Dog Who Committed Suicide	p. 33
Soldier	p. 35
The Light Poem of Mud and Culture	p. 36
Furlough	p. 37
Ruins	p. 38
Snakeskin	p. 39
Order of the Day	p. 40
Military Funeral at High Noon	p. 41
Tel Aviv Beach, Winter '74	p. 44
Legging Behind	p. 45
On Reflection	p. 46
The Hot Season	p. 48
Responsibility	p. 49
Here, Far Away	p. 50
Spread Your Tabernacle	p. 51
I'm Inside	p. 52
The Wars Passed Here	p. 54
The Rain Is Ready to Fall	p. 55
The Wind Grinds	p. 56
Cafe	p. 57
Mohammed	p. 58
He'll Take You with Him	p. 59
My Brother Was Silent	p. 60
Prayer for Peace	p. 61
The Palm Doves	p. 62
And Today Is a Holiday	p. 63
Apple of Pain	p. 64
His Mother	p. 65
Piyyut for Rosh Hashana	p. 66
Between Wars	p. 67
Fears	p. 68
I'm Narrowing My Boundaries	p. 70
The Man Going to War	p. 71
Three Decades Already	p. 72
Around the Water by the Birds	p. 73
Behind Front Lines	p. 75
Sometime	p. 76
Ibrahim	p. 77
And How My Brother Is Cain	p. 78
I Live in Her	p. 79
April the Twentieth, 1948	p. 80
Snow Binds Jerusalem Together	p. 81
Mirage of Sand: Gates of the City	p. 82
Voices from the Hill	p. 83
Love of the Country	p. 84
Memory of Three Dead	p. 85
Between Hermon and the Salt Sea	p. 86
Born Between Alerts	p. 87
Corporal Rabinovitch's Corpse	p. 88
The Mother	p. 89
Vintage '49	p. 90
Summer Resort, July '85	p. 91
Peace Poem After a Ugarithic Inscription	p. 95
A Man Walks in the Land	p. 96
Fig Tree	p. 97
Twenty Years in the Valley	p. 98
The Shot	p. 99
Chronicle	p. 100
Yitzhak and Amalya	p. 103
Migrating Birds	p. 104
Three Colors	p. 105
Requests	p. 106
Soldier	p. 107
Blood Heifer	p. 108
Hovering at a Low Altitude	p. 110
Each Year	p. 113
Our Blood Is the Petrol of the World	p. 114
Summer	p. 115
And the Mother's Face in the Scales	p. 116
The Angel	p. 117
Autumn 1982	p. 119
That Autumn	p. 120
A Soldier Wept on the Radio	p. 121
Only the War	p. 122
Each War Took Me	p. 123
The Dead Soldier's Bethrothed	p. 124
Merciful People	p. 125
On the Dying Young Man	p. 126
The Lame Veteran	p. 128
To Live in the Land of Israel	p. 129
From This Distance the Tombstones Look Like a Flock of Storks	p. 130
Pallor in the Face	p. 132
Rains	p. 133
A Tale of Peaceful Days	p. 134
Definitions	p. 136
Enclosed Seas	p. 138
*	p. 139
Good Eye	p. 140
Bird's-Eye View	p. 141
The Siren's Wail	p. 142
71 AD	p. 143
I've No Words	p. 144
Blackout	p. 145
Every Day the Radio	p. 146
Another Song of Absalom	p. 147
Autumnal Thoughts	p. 149
Song of the Savages	p. 150
Song of the Disabled Ex-Servicemen	p. 151
Each Rose	p. 152
Truce	p. 153
Notes to the Poems	p. 155
Contributors	p. 157
Acknowledgments	p. 171
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