The Fire Stays in Red

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Edition: Bilingual
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-07-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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Summary

"My mother dreams in Arabic, I dream in Hebrew," Ronny Someck has written. Born in Iraq and arriving in Israel as a young child, Someck's Sephardi roots still run deep. His poems are hot, crotic, comic, tragic, agape at the wonders of a tear and a tattoo and a snapshot and a bra and a scarecrow. To read his poetry is to ride a runaway horse. Where else can you find Tarzan, Marilyn Monroe and cowboys battling with Rabbi Yehuda Halevi for the hearts and souls of Israelis. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Ronny Someck has published eight books of poetry in Israel. He hosts his own popular radio show and travels like a troubadour of old all over Israel with a singer who has set many of his poems to music. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages Moshe Dor and Barbara Goldberg are award-winning poets and translators

Table of Contents

Foreword xi
1
Jasmine: Poem about Sand-Paper
3(2)
7 Lines about the Wonder of the Yarkon
5(2)
Hamasger Street. A Wedding Singer
7(2)
Hawadja Bialik
9(2)
The Temperature Is Gunpowder
11(1)
Tattoo of an Eagle
12(3)
Snapshot
15(2)
In Response to the Question: When Did Your Peace Begin?
17(1)
Poverty Line
17(2)
Arab Labor
19(2)
Niva
21(2)
First Law of the Jungle. Poem for a Soldier Missing in Action
23(2)
Poem of Longing
25(2)
Solo Arak
27(4)
Secret
31(2)
Rice Paradise
33(2)
Parachute Canopy
35(2)
Strand of Hair
37(2)
Baghdad, February 1991
39(2)
Poem about Brenner with A.N.'s Shout in Parenthesis
41(2)
On the Way to Arad
43(2)
2
The Leopard and the Glass Slipper
45(4)
Kiss
49(2)
Retort of the Stuttering Boy
51(2)
Embroidered Rag. A Poem About Umm Kulthum
53(2)
Johnny
55(2)
Drummer of the Revolution
57(2)
30 Seconds to Storm the Tit
59(2)
Virginity
61(2)
Self-Portrait From the Commando
63(2)
Pallor in the Face
65(2)
Female Solider in the Desert. A Photo-Novel
67(2)
Elegy for a Dead Horse in the Sabrah Refugee Camp
69(2)
How to Tell the Age of a Horse: A Love Poem
71(2)
Like a Cheetah. Nature Poem
73(2)
Lion Milk
75(2)
Solo
77(2)
For Marilyn Monroe
79(2)
Bloody Mary
81(2)
Ars Poetica or the Difference between Basketball and Table Tennis
83(2)
On the Way to Petra
85(2)
Nine Lines about a Bedouin Dying of Desert Cancer
87(2)
Punctures of History in the Valley of Yehoshafat
89(4)
3
The First Kilometer
93(2)
Sonnet of the Landscape's Sleeve
95(2)
Movers
97(2)
Scarecrow
99(1)
The Dead Sea
99(2)
From This Distance the Tombstones Look Like a Flock of Storks
101(2)
Sonya Burstein's Apple Strudels
103(2)
And Her Husband Blurted Out: Buchenwald
105(2)
Girl and the Butchershop Window
107(2)
Work
109(2)
This is the Poem about the Girl Who Asked Me to Write a Poem about Her
111(2)
Elegy About a Portion of Paradise
113(4)
Sonnet of the Flaming Sword's Birth Chamber
117(2)
Splinter
119(2)
Punk Poem Beginning with Lines by Chekhov
121(2)
The Fire Stays in Red
123(2)
The Razor that Slashed the Metaphoric Face of Poetry
125(2)
Red Catalogue of the Word Sunset
127(2)
Notes 129(2)
About the Author and Translators 131

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