Looking Back, Going Forward : New and Selected Poems

by TAUBE HERMAN

• ISBN13: 9781928755036
• ISBN10: 1928755038
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-01
• Publisher: Midpoint Trade Books Inc

Summary

The work of poet and novelist Herman Taube reveals the inner world of a tormented yet loving soul, a world of deep richness and passion. Looking Back, Going Forward includes recent English translations of poems Taube originally wrote in Polish and Yiddish about his World War II experiences in Poland, Siberia, Uzbekistan, Russia, and Pomerania. It also includes poems dealing with emigration to the United States in 1947, his continuing work as a journalist, and a life that has been dedicated to service in Jewish communities and his expanding family. Distributed for Dryad Press.

Author Biography

Herman Taube is the author of twenty books of poetry and fiction, among them Between the Shadows: New and Selected Works; Autumn Travels; Devious Paths (essays on Yiddish writers, stories, and poems); and two recent novels, Kyzyl Kishlak/Refugee Village and My Baltimore Landsmen.

Table of Contents

Preface
In Commemoration	p. 3
Chaos	p. 4
The Night of Liberation	p. 5
War's Prisoners	p. 6
Of Septembers Past	p. 7
The Refugee	p. 8
Wagons	p. 9
Tyumen	p. 10
Tyumen Clinic	p. 11
Sables	p. 13
Aaron, Rivkele, and Father Jagla	p. 14
Pesach in the Gulags	p. 16
Imploration	p. 17
Punishment	p. 19
Ambulatorium Irtish, Siberia	p. 20
Barbarians	p. 22
Karaganda (Yitzhak Ginzburg Speaks)	p. 23
Irkutsk	p. 25
A Free Day	p. 27
Lake Baykal	p. 28
The Exiles	p. 29
Friendly Disputes	p. 30
Cold Days	p. 31
Irkutsk Nights	p. 32
Difficult to Forget	p. 33
Suicide	p. 35
Loneliness	p. 36
Tyumen Nights	p. 37
The Blast	p. 39
Longing	p. 40
From the Abyss to Freedom	p. 41
Homeless	p. 42
Refugee	p. 45
The "Bieziency"	p. 46
Enterprising Refugees	p. 48
Arrival	p. 49
Hopeless Confusion	p. 50
The Ferghana Canal	p. 51
Babachan	p. 52
The Conference	p. 53
The Bukharan	p. 54
An Adventure	p. 56
Competition	p. 58
Faith	p. 60
The Parasitic Cycle	p. 61
The Sledovatel	p. 62
Light in the Darkness	p. 63
Samarkand	p. 64
Garden of Eden	p. 65
The Freedom Fighter	p. 67
The Shoemaker	p. 69
Termez	p. 71
Learning	p. 72
Kursk Offensive	p. 73
Attack	p. 74
The Crows	p. 75
The Night Before Battle	p. 76
Voronezh	p. 77
The Night After the Battle	p. 79
Night Thrust	p. 80
The Partisans	p. 81
Ploty Railroad Station	p. 82
War Prisoners	p. 83
The Dove Family - The Taube'n	p. 87
Friday Eve in My Childhood	p. 88
Eva	p. 89
Machcia	p. 91
My Patriotic Friend	p. 92
Chrabrost - Courage!	p. 94
Rage Sways My Nights	p. 97
The Girls of the Warsaw Ghetto	p. 99
Last Hour in Majdanek	p. 100
Spectacular Courage	p. 102
Adam Mickiewicz	p. 104
Arthur Szyk, My Landsman	p. 105
Shock!	p. 107
Facing Torture	p. 108
My Badge of Honor	p. 109
Tremors of the Past	p. 111
Split Personality	p. 112
Nine Ways of Looking at Poetry	p. 115
A Spark of Friendship	p. 116
I Am a Resurrected Golem	p. 117
Turbulent Nights, Tranquil Dawns	p. 119
Inner Struggle	p. 121
Dots	p. 122
Fall	p. 124
I Am Like a Tree	p. 125
Spring Dreams	p. 126
An Autumn Sunset	p. 127
Cholesterol	p. 128
I Am a Dandelion	p. 129
Autumn Blues	p. 130
A Note to Merrill	p. 131
Days of Awe Approaching	p. 132
When I Pray	p. 133
Parallel	p. 134
March	p. 135
A Whisper of Hope	p. 139
My Sanctuary	p. 140
Change of Seasons	p. 141
A Ghastly Dream	p. 142
Life	p. 143
Grasshoppers in My Yard	p. 144
Antithesis	p. 145
The Butterfly	p. 146
Imagination	p. 147
Last Day of March	p. 148
My Bathroom	p. 149
Searching for Family	p. 150
The Flu	p. 151
On a Foggy Day	p. 152
Flowers and You	p. 153
Title Index	p. 155
Glossary	p. 157
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