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Finalist for the 2018 National Jewish Book Award in Poetry presented by the Jewish Book Council

from "At Your Side"

Years I walked at your side

like our prophet Isaiah

barefoot naked and bare

I will put on no cover

until you see me

until you recognize an other

one person

at least

and so know yourself as well

Mordechai Geldman came of age as a poet in the seventies, an auspicious and transformative time in the development of modern Hebrew literature, as poets and writers rejected the flowery, the hyperbolic, and the sentimental and opted instead for a more direct and intimate speech. While his early poems tended to rely on linguistic exploration, his vision soon turned inward, as he came to favor the simple, the true, the authentic. Geldman's poems are direct and accessible, touching on and revealing the divine and the sacred in the so-called mundane.
Introduction
Tsipi Keller and Ruth Kartun-Blum

I Wrote Write Will Write: Author’s Preface to the Hebrew Edition

From New Poems (2010)

Voice
Poems from Amirim
Missing (1)
Missing (2)
Who Do You Think You Are
Loss
Carob
[ I had a revelation ]
The body
I Don’t Know
Mangs
Tattoo
At Your Side
Signal, Flicker
What Will I Tell
Poems about My Left Eye
Poems of the River: Leave Behind
[ All at once ]
An Ecological Poem
Rivers
Slowly
Word
Green
[ I’ve forgotten my aging ]
Buddies
A Short Story
Water
[ The bird dives ]
Only a Moment
I Wanted to Tell You

From Tamir‘s Poems (2007)

Inscribed
Let Me
Similes
True Compassion
Gift
60
Cell Phone
The Spirit and the Soul
Worry
I Dreamt You
Another Bracelet
Deer
The Date
The Son
Eurydice
Rumi
There’s Love
And Now
Text Messaging Poems
Sixty
How could I, Tamir

From Poem of the Heart (2004)

Home Poems
At First I Wished to Speak Up
Form
The Neurotic’s Poem
[ The voice of a bird ]
Poet
Oh My Love
Love Poem
N. B.
The Café

From Oh My Dear Wall (2000)

[ In the depths of childhood ]
[ In the end I couldn’t save her ]
[ Before she died ]
Firing Squad
Chu
The Wall
Blue Head
The Sinai Desert Flies
A Lone Tourist
Hair
Putsina
Role

From Book of Ask (1997)

Another Poet
Friendly Dragon
Holy Ground
Dolinger
Book
Opportunity
I Won’t Travel This Summer
Abused Neighbor
Yes
My Death 1
My Death 2
Waste
From the cycle “Summer Sequence”
Almost Flowers

From Eye (1993)

The Last Interview
Line
Bomb
Nocturnes
The Ceiling’s Looking Glass
Porn 6
The Hottentot Venus (Porn 8)

From Milano (1988)

Café
Guy with a Beard and a Ponytail
Human Engineering
Buddha of the Light
Paris
Time
Spring
Poplar in the Window
Leaves

Acknowledgments
About Mordechai Geldman
About Tsipi Keller
About Ruth Kartun-Blum
Index of Titles and First Lines

Sujets

Poetry

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Publié par	State University of New York Press
Date de parution	04 octobre 2018
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781438472393
Langue	English

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Praise for Mordechai Geldman
“[Geldman’s] reach is perhaps not surprising for a psychoanalyst confronted professionally and temperamentally with the inner as well as outer manifestations of human experience. Readers come away with an impression of the poet as uomo universale , a genuinely Renaissance personality, conversant with Greek mythology, world and Jewish history, Chinese culture, the fine arts, flora and fauna, and the expanses of literary imagination.”
— Stanley F. Chyet and Warren Bargad, No Sign of Ceasefire: An Anthology of Contemporary Israeli Poetry
“These are the poems of a wise man, incessantly plagued by epistemological questions.”
— Yedioth Ahronoth
“Mordechai Geldman’s Years I Walked at Your Side … reveals a poet at the height of his creative powers, and places him among the great poets of Hebrew poetry. His poems are meditative, sensual, autobiographical; and always the sudden splash of color, surprising in its simplicity, and affecting us deeply.”
— Maariv
“Geldman is one of the very few Hebrew poets who have so boldly embraced the sensual while dealing with the materialistic notions of self and universe.”
— TimeOut
“Linguistically and rhythmically reserved, Geldman’s poems achieve a fine balance between the emotional and experiencing self, and the philosophical/metaphysical meanings they invoke.”
— Moznaim
“Reading Geldman’s Years I Walked at Your Side allows the reader to follow the great transformations in the work of one of our most important poets.”
— Israel Today
“Geldman creates a complete and coherent poetic universe, a kind of laboratory where the self investigates itself, its consciousness, and its dialectical relationship with the world. Geldman’s poems are direct and uncompromising, taking on the large themes that have been central to philosophy and art from time immemorial.”
— Davar
“Geldman possesses remarkable linguistic and creative abilities. His poems exhibit beauty and depth, investigating the private self as well as the universal, while devoid of all prejudice or preconception. The clarity and virtuosity of his language, its musicality, grant a classicist dimension to his natural nonconformism, as he engages the darker corners of human existence.”
— Uzi Shavit
years i walked at your side
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Selected Poems by
Mordechai Geldman
Translated by
Tsipi Keller
Cover art: Semadar Megged
Published by State University of New York Press
Copyright © Mordechai Geldman
Published by arrangement with The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature
English translation copyright © 2018 Tsipi Keller
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Geldmann, Mordechay, 1946- author. | Keller, Tsipi translator.
Title: Years I walked at your side : selected poems / Mordechai Geldman ; selected and translated from the Hebrew by Tsipi Keller ; introduction by Tsipi Keller and Ruth Kartun-Blum.
Description: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2018. | Series: Excelsior editions | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018000363| ISBN 9781438472386 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781438472393 (e-book)
Classification: LCC PJ5054.G393 A2 2018 | DDC 892.41/6—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018000363
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contents
Introduction, Tsipi Keller and Ruth Kartun-Blum
I Wrote Write Will Write: Author’s Preface to the Hebrew Edition
from New Poems (2010)
Voice
Poems from Amirim
Missing (1)
Missing (2)
Who Do You Think You Are
Loss
Carob
[ I had a revelation ]
The body
I Don’t Know
Mangs
Tattoo
At Your Side
Signal, Flicker
What Will I Tell
Poems about My Left Eye
Poems of the River: Leave Behind
[ All at once ]
An Ecological Poem
Rivers
Slowly
Word
Green
[ I’ve forgotten my aging ]
Buddies
A Short Story
Water
[ The bird dives ]
Only a Moment
I Wanted to Tell You
from Tamir‘s Poems (2007)
Inscribed
Let Me
Similes
True Compassion
Gift
60
Cell Phone
The Spirit and the Soul
Worry
I Dreamt You
Another Bracelet
Deer
The Date
The Son
Eurydice
Rumi
There’s Love
And Now
Text Messaging Poems
Sixty
How could I, Tamir
from Poem of the Heart (2004)
Home Poems
At First I Wished to Speak Up
Form
The Neurotic’s Poem
[ The voice of a bird ]
Poet
Oh My Love
Love Poem
N. B.
The Café
from Oh My Dear Wall (2000)
[ In the depths of childhood ]
[ In the end I couldn’t save her ]
[ Before she died ]
Firing Squad
Chu
The Wall
Blue Head
The Sinai Desert Flies
A Lone Tourist
Hair
Putsina
Role
from Book of Ask (1997)
Another Poet
Friendly Dragon
Holy Ground
Dolinger
Book
Opportunity
I Won’t Travel This Summer
Abused Neighbor
Yes
My Death 1
My Death 2
Waste
From the cycle “Summer Sequence”
Almost Flowers
from Eye (1993)
The Last Interview
Line
Bomb
Nocturnes
The Ceiling’s Looking Glass
Porn 6
The Hottentot Venus (Porn 8)
from Milano (1988)
Café
Guy with a Beard and a Ponytail
Human Engineering
Buddha of the Light
Paris
Time
Spring
Poplar in the Window
Leaves
Acknowledgments
About Mordechai Geldman
About Tsipi Keller
About Ruth Kartun-Blum
Index of Titles and First Lines
introduction
“Be plural like the universe!”
—Fernando Pessoa
Mordechai Geldman came of age as a poet in the seventies, a heady and auspicious time in the development of modern Hebrew poetry. Young poets such as Yair Hurwitz and Yona Wallach—friends and contemporaries of Geldman with whom he shared a strong affinity—were publishing their first books, inspired by and benefitting from the freedoms their elders had established. These poets—David Avidan, Natan Zach, Yehuda Amichai, and Dahlia Ravikovitch—who began publishing two decades earlier, had turned away from the poetic conventions of their immediate predecessors, notably Natan Alterman and Avraham Shlonsky, who were still very dominant in the fifties and sixties. Avidan, Zach, and their contemporaries vehemently rejected the flowery, the hyperbolic, and the sentimental, along with rhyme and formal verse. They advocated for and embraced the modernism of Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, and Wallace Stevens, to name a few, and so paved the way for Geldman and his generation.
In addition to the revitalization of language, the modernist poets also had to engage and reclaim the self. The prominent poets of the previous generations had adopted the persona of prophet-poet, “bearing an enormous weight of national responsibility,” * whereas their successors shed collective responsibility and placed their focus on the individual.
If Geldman’s early poems tended toward the surreal, relying on linguistic exploration and wizardry, his vision soon turned inward, as Geldman more and more came to favor the simple, the true, the authentic. Initially, he was inspired primarily by Rilke; later, such poets as Czesław Milosz, Zbigniew Herbert, Eliot, and Stevens were also instrumental in reshaping his poetic sensibilities. The translator and poet Rina Litvin said of his work, “One of Geldman’s poetic characteristics is the arc of his cultural associations and sensibilities. … The sensual and cultural richness, the fine musicality, the originality of observation, and the thematic singularity combine to make Geldman’s work an important and beautiful treasure in contemporary Hebrew poetry.”
To date, Geldman has published fourteen volumes of poetry and five essay collections. He has received every major poetry prize, including the Bialik Life Achievement Prize in Poetry (2010). The poems presented here are drawn from his two-volume Collected Poems: Years I Walked at Your Side , published by Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House and the Bialik Institute in 2010–11. The Hebrew edition begins with New Poems (2010) and goes back in time till 1970; this edition also begins with 2010 and goes back in time to 1988.
The first poem in Collected Poems , “Voice,” begins:
What is his true voice?
Have words enfolded him
in murmurs
in forms
in worn-out patterns that came before him?
A practicing clinical psychologist, a student of Kabbalah and Zen Buddhism, it seems natural for a poet like Geldman to open with a question. A question or doubt begets another: Nothing is taken for granted, not even such basic notions as one’s voice and identity. Geldman’s act of questioning allows for the complex development and examination of differing