Open Closed Open: Poems Hardcover - 2000
by Amichai, Yehuda; Bloch, Chana; Kronfeld, Chana [Tr.]
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- Title Open Closed Open: Poems
- Author Amichai, Yehuda; Bloch, Chana; Kronfeld, Chana [Tr.]
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin, New York
- Date April 1, 2000
- Bookseller's Inventory # 4560
- ISBN 9780151003785 / 0151003785
- Weight 0.96 lbs (0.44 kg)
- Dimensions 9.78 x 6.26 x 0.74 in (24.84 x 15.90 x 1.88 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Amichai, Yehuda
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00023537
- Dewey Decimal Code 892.416
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Summary
Amichai writes of the language of love, and tea with roasted almonds, of desire and love. Of a Jewish cemetery whose groundskeeper is an expert on flowers and seasons of the year, but no expert on buried Jews; of Russian shirts embroidered in the colors of love and death; of Jerusalem, the city where everything sails: the flags, the prayer shawls, the caftans, the monks' robes, the kaffiyehs, and young women's dresses. The poet tenderly, mischievously, breaks open the grand diction of the revered Jewish verses and supplications and suddenly discovers the light that his own experience casts upon them. Here, the bread of memory and the circuses of forgetting, nostalgia for God and a better world, dust and heat, and tamarisk trees that stand as flight attendants for the next millennium, saying, "You can still get a seat on the third millennium before liftoff." Open Closed Open-poems at once meditative and playful, anxious and full of hope, sung in a language of biblical directness and meaning, that through the microcosm of the everyday give us the gift of the world at large.
First line
On my desk there is a stone with the word "Amen" on it, a triangular fragment of stone from a Jewish graveyard destroyed many generations ago.