{"product_id":"selected-poems-of-shmuel-hanagid-9780691011202","title":"Selected Poems of Shmuel HaNagid","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first major poet of the Hebrew literary renaissance of Moslem Spain, Shmuel Ben Yosef Ha-Levi HaNagid (993-1056 ce) was also the Prime Minister of the Muslim state of Granada, and one of the leading religious figures in a medieval Jewish world that stretched from Andalusia to Baghdad. This book features different versions of HaNagid's poems.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeter Cole, Winner of a 2010 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters Winner of the 1998 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Translation Prize, Modern Language Association Peter Cole is the recipient of a 2007 MacArthur Fellowship \"...a wonder of poetic alchemy. [Cole's] deftly cadenced translations embody, as Pound demanded, 'trace of that power which implies the man'. They are delicately poised between fidelity to the Hebrew and an ear finely-tuned to the possibilities of a modern, poetic idiom in English ... At last HaNagid's gift resonates for the English reader.\"--Poetry Nation Review (England) \"Cole's vigorous inventive translation is equal to the task of rendering the work of a poet whose range encompassed commerce and God, war and wine. HaNagid emerges as a man of identifiably modern--even enlightened--breadth, even as the rest of Europe languished in its Dark Ages.\"--Publishers Weekly \"Thanks to [Cole's] Selected Poems of Shmuel HaNagid and Selected Poems of Solomon Ibn Gabirol, those of us who don't know Hebrew can, for the first time, hear why HaNagid and Ibn Gabirol have been revered for centuries.\"--Eliot Weinberger, Lingua Franca \"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.\"--Village Voice Literary Supplement \"... magnificent ... offers a comprehensive and rich selection of HaNagid's poems ... Cole has paid close attention to the rhythm and syntax of the Hebrew distich, and he reconstructs them with exemplary grace in his English lines. In the quatrains and shorter poems he incorporates a scattering of full rhyme, though always with a light touch, and in some poems he introduces surprising ruptures and daring enjambments into the syntactic flow, imparting a resilience and tension to the text that were missing in the work of his predecessors.\"--Ha'aretz (Israel) \"[Cole's HaNagid] represents the admission of the Hebrew Golden Age into the world of general literature. And high time, too.\"--Commentary \"Fresh, worldly, intimate, and wise ... supple, and sensitive translations.\"--Booklist \"Samuel the Nagid astonishes as a personality, and when read does not disappoint. Cole's generous offering of verse translations brings to the English reader the full range of the Nagid's poetry: accounts of the terrors and exultations of war; poems about love and lovely, frail pleasures; poems of grief; considerations of mortality ... and snappy epigrams on society and the human condition ... a fine, breathing, contemporary version of an old master.\"--Prooftexts \"Translating HaNagid is an immense challenge ... yet Cole, a Jerusalem poet, meets the challenge. The poems are melodic with the music of English ... The images are fresh without being anachronistic. Excellent notes explain not only the Biblical, but the Arabic borrowings.\"--The Jerusalem Report \"Cole has condensed enormous learning into a tightly composed and subtly informing format.\"--The Jerusalem Post \"Entertainingly complex, intriguingly foreign, and strikingly human.\"--The Forward \"Cole ... brings to this work his exquisite sensitivity to matters of art and Judaism. The poems are delightful and significant still, across the ages.\"--Conservative Judaism \"I do not believe that the miracle of ... Hebrew rebirth in Andalusia could find a more attractive English version today.\"--Zvi Yagendorf, Ariel \"Excellent.\"--American Poet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  Introduction  An Andalusian Chronology  On Fleeing His City  The Miracle at Sea  A Curse  The Apple  Jasmine  The Gazelle  The Fawn  Where's That Coy Gazelle  In Fact I Love That Fawn  I'll Show You a Fawn  They Stole My Sleep  His Brother's Illness  On the Death of Isaac, His Brother  The Friends  The House of Prayer  The Critique  The Pain  What Are These  A Day of Distress  The Victory Over Seville  The Dream  The War with Yadir  On Lifting the Siege  Your Manuscript Shines  To Yehosef, His Son  Pass of Sand  Among My Friends  Rise Early  Your Years Are Sleep  Sad Friend  How I Helped the Wise  Rouge in Appearance  Take the Crystal  Truth Is Hard  When the Lord Is with You  One Who Works and Buys Himself Books  How Could You Loathe  Forgive the Man Who Sinned Against You  If You're Finding the Good at Fault  Delay Your Speech  I'd Suck Bitter Poison from the Viper's Mouth  If You Don't Have the Power to Pay  He Who Lingers at the Court of the King  In Business Don't Get Involved  If You Shame a Man  People Welcome the Rich  He Whose Heart in His Heart  If You Leave a Long-Loved Friend  Respect and Discretion  The Rich Are Small  You Who'd Be Wise  When You're Desperate  It's Heart that Discerns  Stab Your Heart  Is There Any Frustration  Did Your Father Leave You Glory  Could Kings Right a People Gone Bad  The King  He'll Bring You Trouble  The Wise Understand  Assistants Come to Judgment in Groups  The Good Students Tend  What's Familiar Is Sometimes Distanced  The Heart Holds Hidden Knowledge  First War  Soar, Don't Settle  Commerce Has Markets  Three Things  The Foolish Enemy's Face Tells All  Man's Wisdom Is in What He Writes  Gazing Through the Night  Lovers of Life  The Multiple Troubles of Man  Be Glad, She Said  Earth to Man  Your Loved Ones Depress You  Soul Opens Inside You  The Child at One or Two  Fear Five to the Power of Five  I Quartered the Troops for the Night  Why Repeat the Sins  Time Defies and Betrays the Patricians  You Felt the Fear of Death  Why Should the Hearts of You Purists  Luxuries Ease  You're Trapped, My Tongue  Friends, a Fence Surrounds Us  Youth Brings Us  He Who Depends on the Princes  On Their Couches Stretched Out at the Treasury  Come Up and See the Court  Suffer the World  The Market  Flutter or Rest  See the Fraud Flow By  The Earthquake  Two Eclipses  The Tyrant Who Rules the Homeless and Poor  My Spirit  The Black of My Hair  Ask the Dead and They'll Tell You  Send the Lord to the People  Cast Your Bread  Know of the Limbs  You Mock Me Now in Your Youth  You Think There's No Hell That Will Hold You  You Look Through Open Eyes  Everything Hidden  Notes  Bibliography","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403674755415,"sku":"9780691011202","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691011202.jpg?v=1730484221","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/selected-poems-of-shmuel-hanagid-9780691011202","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}