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- 0691070326
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- 9780691070322
- Date of Publication
- 2001-03-04
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- Type
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- Selected Poems of Solomon Ibn Gabirol: 48 (The Lockert Library...
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691070326
ISBN-13
9780691070322
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1685999
Product Key Features
Book Title
Selected Poems of Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Number of Pages
344 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2001
Topic
General, Ancient & Classical, Jewish Studies
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Poetry, Social Science
Book Series
The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
17 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
7.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
00-044124
Reviews
Taut, light-footed translations . . . remarkable in the degree to which they carry over the distinct poetic complexities of the original while retaining a crisp, contemporary sense of American poetics . . . the quality of motion and emotion comes through directly. -- Publisher's Weekly, "Taut, light-footed translations . . . remarkable in the degree to which they carry over the distinct poetic complexities of the original while retaining a crisp, contemporary sense of American poetics . . . the quality of motion and emotion comes through directly."-- Publisher's Weekly, Cole's translations of Ibn Gabirol's poetry shimmer: they convey the power and mystique of the original in warm and wonderful phrases. Immediately accessible to the reader seeking beautiful locutions about love, longing, and desire. . . . Cole's introduction is a gem, delineating what little is known about Ibn Gabirol the man and describing his world, his work, and his thought in ways that will delight. -- Choice, Cole's translations of Ibn Gabirol's poetry shimmer: they convey the power and mystique of the original in warm and wonderful phrases. Immediately accessible to the reader seeking beautiful locutions about love, longing, and desire. . . . Cole's introduction is a gem, delineating what little is known about Ibn Gabirol the man and describing his world, his work, and his thought in ways that will delight., "Taut, light-footed translations . . . remarkable in the degree to which they carry over the distinct poetic complexities of the original while retaining a crisp, contemporary sense of American poetics . . . the quality of motion and emotion comes through directly." -- Publisher's Weekly, Being medieval, these poems inevitably demonstrate the scope of religious language in their explorations of nature, drink, love, sex, boasting, friendship and loneliness. They are by turns, witty, satirical, elegiac--and always allusive. -- Jane Liddell-King, Jewish Chronicle, "Coles translations of Ibn Gabirols poetry shimmer: they convey the power and mystique of the original in warm and wonderful phrases. Immediately accessible to the reader seeking beautiful locutions about love, longing, and desire. . . . Coles introduction is a gem, delineating what little is known about Ibn Gabirol the man and describing his world, his work, and his thought in ways that will delight."-- Choice, Winner of the 2001 T.L.S-Porjes Prize for Translation, Jewish Book Council Peter Cole, Winner of a 2010 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters Peter Cole is the recipient of a 2007 MacArthur Fellowship, "Being medieval, these poems inevitably demonstrate the scope of religious language in their explorations of nature, drink, love, sex, boasting, friendship and loneliness. They are by turns, witty, satirical, elegiac--and always allusive." ---Jane Liddell-King, Jewish Chronicle, Taut, light-footed translations . . . remarkable in the degree to which they carry over the distinct poetic complexities of the original while retaining a crisp, contemporary sense of American poetics . . . the quality of motion and emotion comes through directly., Being medieval, these poems inevitably demonstrate the scope of religious language in their explorations of nature, drink, love, sex, boasting, friendship and loneliness. They are by turns, witty, satirical, elegiac--and always allusive., Cole's translations of Ibn Gabirol's poetry shimmer: they convey the power and mystique of the original in warm and wonderful phrases. Immediately accessible to the reader seeking beautiful locutions about love, longing, and desire. . . ., "Cole's translations of Ibn Gabirol's poetry shimmer: they convey the power and mystique of the original in warm and wonderful phrases. Immediately accessible to the reader seeking beautiful locutions about love, longing, and desire. . . . Cole's introduction is a gem, delineating what little is known about Ibn Gabirol the man and describing his world, his work, and his thought in ways that will delight."-- Choice, "Cole's translations of Ibn Gabirol's poetry shimmer: they convey the power and mystique of the original in warm and wonderful phrases. Immediately accessible to the reader seeking beautiful locutions about love, longing, and desire. . . . Cole's introduction is a gem, delineating what little is known about Ibn Gabirol the man and describing his world, his work, and his thought in ways that will delight." -- Choice, "Being medieval, these poems inevitably demonstrate the scope of religious language in their explorations of nature, drink, love, sex, boasting, friendship and loneliness. They are by turns, witty, satirical, elegiac--and always allusive." --Jane Liddell-King, Jewish Chronicle, Peter Cole, Winner of a 2010 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters Winner of the 2001 T.L.S-Porjes Prize for Translation, Jewish Book Council Peter Cole is the recipient of a 2007 MacArthur Fellowship, "Being medieval, these poems inevitably demonstrate the scope of religious language in their explorations of nature, drink, love, sex, boasting, friendship and loneliness. They are by turns, witty, satirical, elegiac--and always allusive."-- Jane Liddell-King, Jewish Chronicle, Peter Cole, Winner of a 2010 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Winner of the 2001 T.L.S-Porjes Prize for Translation, Jewish Book Council Peter Cole, Winner of a 2010 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Dewey Edition
21
Series Volume Number
48
Dewey Decimal
892.4/12
Table Of Content
Solomon Ibn Gabirol: An Andalusian Alphabet 3 FROM THE DIWAN OF SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Truth Seekers Turn 41 PERSONAL POEMS AND POEMS OF COURT I'm Prince to the Poem 45 My Words Are Driven 46 Forget About ''If'' and ''Maybe'' 47 Prologue to the Book of Grammar 49 My Condition Worsened 51 All My Desire 52 The Apple: I 53 The Rose 54 See the Sun 55 They Asked Me As Though They Were Mystified 56 On Leaving Saragossa 57 The Moon Was Cut 61 My Heart Thinks As the Sun Comes Up 62 The Palace Garden 63 Winter with Its Ink 66 The Garden 67 The Field 68 The Bee 69 Isn't the Sky 70 The Lily 71 Now the Thrushes 72 The Apple: II 73 The Lightning 74 The Lip of the Cup 75 I'd Give Up My Soul Itself 76 Tell the Boy 77 Be Smart with Your Love 78 All in Red 79 Shards 80 The Apple: III 81 You've Stolen My Words 82 The Altar of Song 83 Tell the Prince 84 What's Troubling You, My Soul 85 The Pen 88 What's With You 89 God-Fearing Men 90 Your Soul Strains and You Sigh 91 Don't Look Back 94 If This Life's Joy 95 When You Find Yourself Angry 96 I Am the Man 97 And Don't Be Astonished 99 The Tree 100 If You'd Live Among Men 104 Why Are You Frightened 105 A Kite 106 And Heart's Hollow 107 I Love You 108 POEMS OF DEVOTION Before My Being 111 Three Things 112 I Look for You 113 Forget Your Grief 114 The Hour of Song 117 Two Things Meet in Me 118 Small in My Awe 119 Open the Gate 120 My Thoughts Asked Me 121 Angels Amassing 122 All the Creatures of Earth and Heaven 124 He Dwells Forever 126 And So It Came to Nothing 129 Haven't I Hidden Your Name 130 Lord Who Listens 131 I've Made You My Refuge 132 Lips for Bullocks 133 I Take Great Pleasure 134 Send Your Spirit 135 You Lie in My Palace on Couches of Gold 136 KINGDOM'S CROWN 137 Notes 197 Bibliography 317
Synopsis
Includes poems from nearly various of Ibn Gabirol's secular and liturgical lyric genres, as well as a translation of the poet's long masterwork, "Kingdom's Crown." This book contains an introduction, which places the poetry in historical context and charts its influence through the centuries., Poet, philosopher, and sensitive misanthrope, a spectacular fly in the ointment of the refined eleventh-century Andalusian-Jewish elite, Solomon Ibn Gabirol comes down to us as one of the most complicated intellectual figures in the history of post-biblical Judaism. Unlike his worldly predecessor Shmuel HaNagid, the first important poet of the period, Ibn Gabirol was a reclusive, mystically inclined figure whose modern-sounding medieval poems range from sublime descriptions of the heavenly spheres to poisonous jabs at court life and its pretenders. His verse, which demonstrates complete mastery of the classicizing avant-garde poetics of the day, grafted an Arabic aesthetic onto a biblical vocabulary and Jewish setting, taking Hebrew poetry to a level of metaphysical sophistication and devotional power it has not achieved since. Peter Cole's selection includes poems from nearly all of Ibn Gabirol's secular and liturgical lyric genres, as well as a complete translation of the poet's long masterwork, "Kingdom's Crown." Cole's rich, inventive introduction places the poetry in historical context and charts its influence through the centuries. Extensive annotations accompany the poems. This companion volume to Peter Cole's critically acclaimed Selected Poems of Shmuel HaNagid presents the first comprehensive selection of Ibn Gabirol's verse to be published in English and brings to life an astonishing body of poetry by one of the greatest Jewish writers of all time., Poet, philosopher, and sensitive misanthrope, a spectacular fly in the ointment of the refined eleventh-century Andalusian-Jewish elite, Solomon Ibn Gabirol comes down to us as one of the most complicated intellectual figures in the history of post-biblical Judaism. Unlike his worldly predecessor Shmuel HaNagid, the first important poet of the period, Ibn Gabirol was a reclusive, mystically inclined figure whose modern-sounding medieval poems range from sublime descriptions of the heavenly spheres to poisonous jabs at court life and its pretenders. His verse, which demonstrates complete mastery of the classicizing avant-garde poetics of the day, grafted an Arabic aesthetic onto a biblical vocabulary and Jewish setting, taking Hebrew poetry to a level of metaphysical sophistication and devotional power it has not achieved since. Peter Cole's selection includes poems from nearly all of Ibn Gabirol's secular and liturgical lyric genres, as well as a complete translation of the poet's long masterwork, "Kingdom's Crown." Cole's rich, inventive introduction places the poetry in historical context and charts its influence through the centuries.Extensive annotations accompany the poems.This companion volume to Peter Cole's critically acclaimed Selected Poems of Shmuel HaNagid presents the first comprehensive selection of Ibn Gabirol's verse to be published in English and brings to life an astonishing body of poetry by one of the greatest Jewish writers of all time.
LC Classification Number
PJ5050.I3A23 2000
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