{"product_id":"the-dream-of-the-poem-9780691121956","title":"The Dream of the Poem","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHebrew culture experienced a renewal in medieval Spain that produced what is arguably the most powerful body of Jewish poetry written since the Bible. Fusing elements of East and West, Arabic and Hebrew, and the particular and the universal, this verse embodies a faith that transcend the limits of language, place, and time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2010 TLS Risa Domb\/Porjes Translation Prize, Jewish Book Council Winner of the 2007 R. R. Hawkins Award, Association of American Publishers Winner of the 2007 Award for Best Professional\/Scholarly Book in Humanities, Association of American Publishers Winner of the 2007 Award for Best Professional\/Scholarly Book in Literature, Language, and Linguistics, Association of American Publishers Winner of the 2007 National Jewish Book Award in Poetry Finalist for the 2007 National Jewish Book Award in Sephardic Culture Peter Cole, Winner of a 2010 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters \"Virtually stagnant since late Biblical times, Hebrew poetry and the language itself would be transformed by a succession of poets of genius and their imitators. In Peter Cole's rich new anthology, the extent of their astonishing achievement is fully revealed for the first time in English... His versions are masterly.\"--Eric Ormsby, New York Times Book Review \"Perpetually astonishing. The central figures in Peter Cole's anthology are great by any standards... [They] provoke love in any reader of Hebrew literature, and by [a] miracle of Cole's own creation, in any reader of little or no Hebrew who directly confronts the work of this major poet-translator... Superb.\"--Harold Bloom, New York Review of Books \"The book is a treasure trove, a labour of love and exceptional erudition, which will open up to the reader a world of poetry and culture as rich as anything in human civilization.\"--Times Literary Supplement \"...[Cole] has performed an enormous service and produced a book which is by turns moving, charming, and funny. No one after this will be able to write a book on medieval poetry without taking the Hebrew and Arabic poets of Spain into account.\"--Gabriel Josipovici, Times Literary Supplement \"Meticulously edited and captivating anthology... [P]oetic scholarship at its best... [A] major translation project.\"--Marjorie Perloff, Bookforum Praise for Peter Cole's Selected Poems of Solomon Ibn Gabirol and Selected Poems of Shmuel HaNagid (both Princeton):\"Cole's translations ... shimmer: they convey the power and mystique of the original.\"--Choice Praise for Peter Cole's Selected Poems of Solomon Ibn Gabirol and Selected Poems of Shmuel HaNagid (both Princeton): \"Fresh, worldly, intimate, and wise.\"--Booklist Praise for Peter Cole's Selected Poems of Solomon Ibn Gabirol and Selected Poems of Shmuel HaNagid (both Princeton): \"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 \"Traversing five centuries, four hundred poems, and fifty poets, the anthology represents a remarkable literature that evolved and flourished between the East and the West, between sacred and the profane, and amid the collision and collusion of traditions, religions, and languages ... all bolstered by Cole's extensive introductions, biographies, commentary, and glossaries.\"--American Poet \"Peter Cole offers us an unprecedented gift, bringing to life a body of Hebrew poetry that, wrote Harold Bloom, can at its best 'rival the magnificences of Scripture'...[Cole's] achievement in bringing us this volume is as death-defying an act as any ever undertaken by the poets he presents within its pages.\"--Esther Allen, Bomb Magazine \"The Dream of the Poem offers English readers a substantial, unfailingly elegant anthology of medieval Hebrew poetry in translation. Overall, it is a remarkable achievement... [I]t brings to life a world we have long yearned to share more eloquently with those who could not read it for themselves.\"--Susan L. Einbinder, Speculum \"The anthology appears in a series devoted to translated poetry, and is designed to be accessible to general readers. Yet it is also suitable for use as a course book: there are helpful introductions and annotations, and the publisher has made the Hebrew originals available on-line. The book is a true labour of love, and should win new readers to this wonderfully rich body of poetry.\"--Nicholas De Lange, Journal of Jewish Studies \"Seldom if ever has medieval Iberian literature received such attention from the English-speaking academic world, much less the larger American reading public, and it speaks to the importance of Cole's translations, which have given voice to this material in a way that other translations have not. For scholars of Spanish literature these translations are important in that they make accessible to non-Hebrew speakers a large body of Judeo-Iberian poetry, some of it not previously available in translation.\"--Michelle Hamilton, Bulletin of Spanish Studies \"The book constitutes a milestone that will not be easy to surpass. May this book inspire the next generation of researchers to develop further research aims in Medieval Hebrew literature!\"--Arie Schippers, Review of Middle Eastern Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo the Reader xxi Acknowledgments xxiii Introduction 1   PART ONE: Muslim Spain (c. 950-c. 1140)    DUNASH BEN LABRAT 23  Fragment 24  Blessing for a Wedding 24  Drink, He Said 24    THE WIFE OF DUNASH 27  Will Her Love Remember? 27    YITZHAQ IBN MAR SHA'UL 28  A Fawn Sought in Spain 28    YOSEF IBN AVITOR 30  Lament for the Jews of Zion 31  A Curse 32  A Plea 33  Hymn for the New Year 33    YITZHAQ IBN KHALFOUN 35  Love in Me Stirs 35  A Gift of Cheese 36    SHMU'EL HANAGID 37  On Fleeing His City 38  The Miracle at Sea 40  The Apple 44  The Gazelle 45  Jasmine 45  In Fact I Love That Fawn 45  Mixed in Spain 46  Your Years Are Sleep 46  The House of Prayer 47  The Critique 48  On Lifting the Siege 49  The War with Yaddayir 50  On the Death of Isaac, His Brother 53  First War 58  I'd Suck Bitter Poison 59  Delay Your Speech 59  The Rich 59  People Welcome the Rich 60  If You Leave a Long-Loved Friend 60  You Who'd Be Wise 60  When You're Desperate 61  It's Heart That Discerns 61  He'll Bring You Trouble 61  Could Kings Right a People Gone Bad 61  What's Familiar Is Sometimes Distanced 62  One Who Works and Buys Himself Books 62  Three Things 62  Soar, Don't Settle 62  Man's Wisdom Is in What He Writes 63  Be Glad, She Said 63  The Multiple Troubles of Man 63  Gazing through the Night 64  Earth to Man 65  The Child at One or Two 65  I Quartered the Troops for the Night 66  Luxuries Ease 66  Why Repeat the Sins 67  At the Treasury 67  Know of the Limbs 67  You Mock Me Now 68  Time Defies and Betrays 68  The Market 68    YOSEF IBN HASDAI 70  The Qasida 71    SHELOMO IBN GABIROL 74  Truth Seekers Turn 75  I'm Prince to the Poem 76  Prologue to The Book of Grammar 76  They Asked Me as though They Were Mystified 77  See the Sun 78  On Leaving Saragossa 78  My Heart Thinks as the Sun Comes Up 81  Now the Thrushes 81  Winter with Its Ink 82  The Garden 82  The Field 83  The Bee 83  I'd Give Up My Soul Itself 84  Be Smart with Your Love 84  All in Red 85  You've Stolen My Words 85  The Altar of Song 85  The Pen 86  If You'd Live among Men 86  I Am the Man 86  Heart's Hollow 88  I Love You 89  Before My Being 90  Three Things 90  I Look for You 91  Open the Gate 91  The Hour of Song 92  Send Your Spirit 92  Angels Amassing 93  And So It Came to Nothing 94  He Dwells Forever 95  Haven't I Hidden Your Name 97  Lord Who Listens 98  I've Made You My Refuge 98  You Lie in My Palace 99  From Kingdom's Crown 99    YITZHAQ IBN GHIYYAT 111  My Wandering 112    YOSEF IBN SAHL 114  The Fleas 114  Your Poem, My Friend 115  A Complaint about the Rich 115    LEVI IBN ALTABBAAN 117  Utter His Oneness 117  Exposed 118    BAHYA IBN PAQUDA 119  Duties of the Heart 119  MOSHE IBN EZRA 121  Weak with Wine 122  The Garden 123  Bring Me My Cup 123  A Shadow 123  The Fawn 124  The Garden, the Miser 124  The Pen 125  Heart's Desire 125  That Bitter Day 127  Let Man Remember 127  The Dove 127  Why Does Time Hound Me So 128  Ancient Graves 128  If You See Me 129  Ivory Palaces 129  The World 130  My Heart's Secret 130  I Roused My Thoughts from Slumber 130  Let Man Wail 132  On the Death of His Son 132  The Blind 133  The Gazelle's Sigh 133  Gold 134  The Day to Come 134  At the Hour of Closing 135    YOSEF IBN TZADDIQ 137  A Wedding Night's Consolation 137  Lady of Grace 139    SHELOMO IBN TZAQBEL 141  Lines Inscribed on an Apple 142  Note to a Suitor Now Perplexed 142  A Fawn with Her Lashes 142    YEHUDA HALEVI 143  That Night a Gazelle 145  A Doe Washes 146  If Only Dawn 146  That Day while I Had Him 146  Another Apple 146  To Ibn al-Mu'allim 147  If Only I Could Give 147  Epithalamium 149  When a Lone Silver Hair 149  If Time 150  Inscriptions on Bowls 150  Four Riddles 150  Departure 151  On Friendship and Time 152  Slaves of Time 154  Heal Me, Lord 154  True Life 154  The Morning Stars 155  His Thresholds 155  Where Will I Find You 155  You Knew Me 156  A Doe Far from Home 156  A Dove in the Distance 157  You Slept, Then Trembling Rose 158  Love's Dwelling 158  Lord, 159  If Only I Could Be 160  Won't You Ask, Zion 162  My Heart Is in the East 164  How Long Will You Lie 164  Heart at Sea 165  My Soul Longed 167  Has a Flood Washed the World 167  In the Heart 168  Above the Abyss 168  Time Has Tossed Me 168  Be with Me 169  Along the Nile 169  This Breeze 170    PART TWO: Christian Spain and Provence (c. 1140-1492)    AVRAHAM IBN EZRA 173  Fortune's Stars 174  How It Is 175  A Cloak 175  The Flies 176  World Poetry 176  All the Rest Is Commentary 177  I. The Flood 177  II. Reading Exodus 177  III. The Miracle (at Lehi) 177  Pleasure 177  In Place 177  The Wedding Night, Continued 178  An Ancient Battle 179  Lament for Andalusian Jewry 181  Elegy for a Son 182  My Hunger 184  Sent Out from the Glory 184  Lord, I Have Heard 184  My God, 185  To the Soul 185  Blessed Is He Who Fears 186  I Bow Down 188  Children of Exile 189  I Call to Him 189  You Whose Hearts Are Asleep 190    YITZHAQ IBN EZRA 192  On the Death of Yehuda HaLevi 193  Over His Boy 194  Conversion 195    YOSEF QIMHI 196  Love for the World 197  Always Be Vigilant 197  Consider This 197  Suffer Your Sorrow 197  On Wisdom 198  If You Hear Someone Insult You 198  Wait and Be Saved 198  Wealth 199  Silence and Speech 199    YOSEF IBN ZABARA 200  Sweet and Sour 201  My Ex 201  Look at These People 202  The Physician 202    ANATOLI BAR YOSEF 203  The Test of Poetry 203  Motto 204    YEHUDA IBN SHABBETAI 205  From The Offering of Yehuda the Misogynist 206  I. Pharaoh's Wisdom 206  II. The Misogynist in Love 206  III. A Raised Offering 207  IV. Two Things 207  V. The Sage Lies 207    YEHUDA ALHARIZI 208  Born to Baseness 209  The Hypocrite 210  The Jerk 210  A Miser in Mosul 210  The Miser 211  On Zion's Holy Hill 211  Boys: Two Poems 212  I. If Amram's Son 212  II. An Answer 212  Masters of Song 212  Measure for Measure 212  A Lover Wandered 213  How Long, My Fawn 213  Curses' Composition 213  A Flashing Sword 214  Palindrome for a Patron 214  A Poem No Patron Has Ever Heard 215  Admiration for the Patron Again I'll Prove 215  Two Poems on Karaism 215  I. For 215  II. Against 216  Virtue 216  I'll Set Out a Verse and Lay the Foundation ... 216    YA'AQOV BEN ELAZAR 218  The Hypocrite's Beard 219  Four Poems on Subtle Love 220  I. The Doe 220  II. A Kiss 220  III. A Lover's Transgression 220  IV. Spats and Squabbles 220    AVRAHAM IBN HASDAI 221  Watch Out 222  ProPortion 222  Age as Author 222  Which Is More Bitter 223  The Lying Word 223  The Monk's Advice 223  Advice for a Future King 223  I. Wisdom's Mantle 223  II. Don't Believe 224  III. The Hyssop and the Cedar 224    MEIR HALEVI ABULAFIA 225  Plea for a Tax Break 226  (L)attitude 226  Fighting Time 226    YITZHAQ HASNIRI 227  On the Worship of Wood and a Fool 228    MESHULLAM DEPIERA 229  The Poet 230  On a New Book by Maimonides 230  Before You Take Up Your Pen 230  How Could You Press for Song 231  As One with the Morning Stars 232    MOSHE BEN NAHMAN (NAHMANIDES) 233  Before the World Ever Was 234  From \"One Hundred Verses\" 237  SHEM TOV IBN FALAQERA 240  Career Counseling 241  A Mystery 241  On Poets and Poetry 241  Why God Made You 242  The Fool Thinks 242  Poverty's War 242    YITZHAQ IBN SAHULA 243  The Cynic Speaks 244  On Humility 244    AVRAHAM ABULAFIA 245  From The Book of the Letter 247    AVRAHAM BEN SHMU'EL 252  To Whom among the Avengers of Blood 253  YOSEF GIQATILLA 254  The Nut Garden 255    TODROS ABULAFIA 256  I've Labored in Love 258  She Said She Wanted 258  The Day You Left 258  That Fine Gazelle 259  They Fight with Me over Desire 259  That Girl Emerged 259  May My Tongue 259  There's Nothing Wrong in Wanting a Woman 260  Strong Poet, Weak Poet 260  Plaster and Pearls 261  Nothing Left to Say 261  Teachers and Writers 261  Before the King 262  My King 262  Poems from Prison 262  I. As Love Lives 262  II. Treacherous Time 263  III. The Filthy Lay in Darkness with Me 263  IV. My Rings Have Fallen 263  V. Is It the Lord 264  Time Tries as I Drift 264  The Sea Casts Up Mire and Mud 264  On a Bible Written by Shmu'el HaNagid 265  Time Spreads Its Nets 265  Old Age Is Double-Edged 266  Perversion's Pigeons 266  My Thinking Wove 266  The Lord Is Good and So I'm Tormented 267  Defiled and Pure Are One 267  On Hearing Church Bells 267  I Take Delight in My Cup and Wine 268    NAHUM 270  Winter Has Waned 270    AVRAHAM HABEDERSHI 272  Why the Poet Refuses to Fight 273  Your Muse 273  Lament for a Foe 274  The Poet's Distress 274    YITZHAQ HAGORNI 275  Would You Tell Me 276  HaGorni's Lament 276    YEDAYA HAPENINI 278  The World Is a Raging Sea 279    AVNER [OF BURGOS?] 281  The Last Words of My Desire 282    QALONYMOS BEN QALONYMOS 284  On Becoming a Woman 285    YITZHAK POLGAR 287  Faith's Philosophy, Philosophy's Faith 288    SHEM TOV ARDUTIEL (SANTOB DE CARRION) 289  From The Battles of the Pen and the Scissors 290  I. Writer, You Hold 290  II. To Praise the Pen 291  III. Tomorrow I'll Write 291  IV. Enter the Scissors 291  V. Work I Was Cut Out to Do 291  VI. The Pen Fights Back 292  VII. The Scissors Longed 292    SHMU'EL IBN SASSON 293  Man's Peril 294  Why Most Poets Are Poor 294  They Will Be Tried 296    MOSHE NATAN 297  Prison 297  From \"The Ten Commandments\" 298  Clothes Make the Man 298    SHELOMO DEPIERA 299  Thinkers with Thinking 301  The Bee and the Grumbler 301  Medieval Arthritis 301  Winter in Monzon 302  After Conversion 303  Tabernacles: A Prayer 303  A Prayer for Rain and Sustenance 303  This Year's Wine: 1417 304    VIDAL BENVENISTE 305  Advice from Wives 306  What Girls Want 306  To a Poet-Friend Too Much in Need 307  Poems for a Doe in a Garden 307  A Thank You Note 308  Think about This 308  Beyond Words 308  My Son, before You Were Born 309  To One Who Said His Heart for Verse Was Adamant 309  Clarity 309  What Goes Around Comes ... 309  The Tongue Speaks and the Hand Records 310    SHELOMO HALEVI (PABLO DE SANTA MARIA) 312  Memory's Wine 313    SHELOMO BONAFED 314  World Gone Wrong 315  A Vision of Ibn Gabirol 317  Wherever You Go 318    YITZHAQ ALAHDAB 320  Inflation 320  Another Flea 321  Security 321  The Elderly Asked if the Doctors 321  As Sorcerers Spread 321  Being Poor 322  State of the Art; or, Poetry Wails 322  Renaissance Man 323    MOSHE REMOS 326  Last Words 327    'ELI BEN YOSEF [HAVILLIO?] 330  Who Soars 330    MOSHE IBN HABIB 331  Account 332  You Come to the House of God 332    SA'ADIA IBN DANAAN 333  Enmity Smolders 334  Hordes of Readers 334  Mixed Messenger 334  She Trapped Me 334  Chiasmus for a Doe 335    Notes 337  Glossary 527","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865518453079,"sku":"9780691121956","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691121956.jpg?v=1722274355","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-dream-of-the-poem-9780691121956","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}