The selected poetry of Yehuda Amichai

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 Contents
 Foreword 2013
 Foreword 1996
 PART ONE: edited and translated
 From Now and in Other Days (1955)
 God Has Pity on Kindergarten Children
 The U.N. Headquarters in the High Commissioner\'s House in Jerusalem
 Autobiography, 1952
 The Smell of Gasoline Ascends in My Nose
 Six Poems for Tamar
 Yehuda Ha-Levi
 Ibn Gabirol
 When I Was a Child
 Look: Thoughts and Dreams
 From We Loved Here
 From Two Hopes Away (1958)
 Gods Hand in the World
 Sort of an Apocalypse
 And That Is Your Glory
 Of Three or Four in a Room
 Not Like a Cypress. Through Two Points Only One Straight Line Can PassHalf the People in the World
 For My Birthday
 Two Photographs
 Poems for a Woman
 Children\'s Procession
 Ballad of the Washed Hair
 Sonnet from the Voyage
 The Visit of the Queen of Sheba
 From In a Right Angle: A Cycle of Quatrains
 From Poems, 1948-1962
 As for the World
 In the Middle of This Century
 Farewell
 Such as Sorrow
 Jerusalem
 Before
 And as Far as Abu Ghosh
 You Too Got Tired
 The Place Where We Are Right
 Mayor
 Resurrection
 From Summer or Its End
 In the Full Severity of Mercy
 Too Many
 Poem for Arbor Day. Jacob and the AngelHere
 Elegy on an Abandoned Village
 The Elegy on the Lost Child
 From Now in the Storm, Poems 1963-1968
 Jerusalem, 1967
 The Bull Returns
 A Luxury
 To Bake the Bread of Yearning
 National Thoughts
 A Pity. We Were Such a Good Invention
 Elegy
 Threading
 Now in the Storm
 Travels of the Last Benjamin of Tudela
 PART TWO: edited and translated
 From Not for the Sake of Remembering (1971)
 Jews in the Land of Israel
 Wildpeace
 The Way It Was
 Instead of Words
 Gifts of Love
 Ballad in the Streets of Buenos Aires
 Psalm. From Behind All This a Great Happiness Is Hiding (1976)Seven Laments for the War-Dead
 Like the Inner Wall of a House
 Love Song
 I\'ve Grown Very Hairy
 A Dog After Love
 A Bride Without a Dowry
 The Sweet Breakdowns of Abigail
 To a Convert
 My Father in a White Space Suit
 A Letter of Recommendation
 On the Day I Left
 A Letter
 In a Leap Year
 A Quiet Joy
 A Mutual Lullaby
 From Songs of Zion the Beautiful
 From Time (1978)
 Songs of Continuity
 At the Monastery of Latroun
 When I Was Young, the Whole Country Was Young
 I Walked Past a House Where I Lived Once
 To My Love, Combing Her Hair. The Diameter of the BombWhen I Banged My Head on the Door
 You Carry the Weight of Heavy Buttocks
 Advice for Good Love
 You Are So Small and Slight in the Rain
 A Man Like That on a Bald Mountain in Jerusalem
 When a Man\'s Far Away from His Country
 The Eve of Rosh Hashanah
 I\'ve Already Been Weaned
 In the Garden, at the White Table
 From the Book of Esther I Filtered the Sediment
 So I Went Down to the Ancient Harbor
 Now the Lifeguards Have All Gone Home
 Near the Wall of a House
 From A Great Tranquillity: Questions and Answers (1980)
 You Can Rely on Him
 You Mustn\'t Show Weakness.