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| Foreword | |
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| God Has Pity on Kindergarten Children | |
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| The U.N. Headquarters in the High Commissioner's House in Jerusalem | |
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| Autobiography, 1952 | |
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| The Smell of Gasoline Ascends in My Nose | |
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| Six Poems for Tamar | |
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| Yehuda Ha-Levi | |
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| Ibn Gabirol | |
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| When I Was a Child | |
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| Look: Thoughts and Dreams | |
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| From We Loved Here | |
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| God's Hand in the World | |
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| Sort of an Apocalypse | |
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| And That Is Your Glory | |
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| Of Three or Four in a Room | |
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| Not Like a Cypress | |
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| Through Two Points Only One Straight Line Can Pass | |
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| Half the People in the World | |
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| For My Birthday | |
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| Two Photographs | |
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| Poems for a Woman | |
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| Children's Procession | |
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| Ballad of the Washed Hair | |
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| Sonnet from the Voyage | |
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| The Visit of the Queen of Sheba | |
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| From In a Right Angle: A Cycle of Quatrains | |
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| As for the World | |
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| In the Middle of This Century | |
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| Farewell | |
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| Such as Sorrow | |
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| Jerusalem | |
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| Before | |
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| And as Far as Abu Ghosh | |
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| You Too Got Tired | |
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| The Place Where We Are Right | |
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| Mayor | |
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| Resurrection | |
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| From Summer or Its End | |
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| In the Full Severity of Mercy | |
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| Too Many | |
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| Poem for Arbor Day | |
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| Jacob and the Angel | |
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| Here | |
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| Elegy on an Abandoned Village | |
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| The Elegy on the Lost Child | |
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| Jerusalem, 1967 | |
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| The Bull Returns | |
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| A Luxury | |
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| To Bake the Bread of Yearning | |
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| National Thoughts | |
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| A Pity. We Were Such a Good Invention | |
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| Elegy | |
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| Threading | |
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| Now in the Storm | |
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| Travels of the Last Benjamin of Tudela | |
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| Jews in the Land of Israel | |
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| Wildpeace | |
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| The Way It Was | |
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| Instead of Words | |
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| Gifts of Love | |
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| Ballad in the Streets of Buenos Aires | |
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| Psalm | |
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| Seven Laments for the War-Dead | |
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| Like the Inner Wall of a House | |
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| Love Song | |
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| I've Grown Very Hairy | |
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| A Dog After Love | |
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| A Bridge Without a Dowry | |
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| The Sweet Breakdowns of Abigail | |
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| To a Convert | |
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| My Father in a White Space Suit | |
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| A Letter of Recommendation | |
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| On the Day I Left | |
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| A Letter | |
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| In a Leap Year | |
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| A Quiet Joy | |
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| A Mutual Lullaby | |
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| From Songs of Zion the Beautiful | |
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| Songs of Continuity | |
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| At the Monastery of Latroun | |
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| When I Was Young, the Whole Country Was Young | |
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| I Walked Past a House Where I Lived Once | |
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| To My Love, Combing Her Hair | |
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| The Diameter of the Bomb | |
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| When I Banged My Head on the Door | |
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| You Carry the Weight of Heavy Buttocks | |
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| Advice for Good Love | |
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| You Are So Small and Slight in the Rain | |
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| A Man Like That on a Bald Mountain in Jerusalem | |
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| When a Man's Far Away from His Country | |
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| The Eve of Rosh Hashanah | |
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| I've Already Been Weaned | |
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| In the Garden, at the White Table | |
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| From the Book of Esther I Filtered the Sediment | |
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| So I Went Down to the Ancient Harbor | |
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| Now the Lifeguards Have All Gone Home | |
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| Near the Wall of a House | |
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| You Can Rely on Him | |
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| You Mustn't Show Weakness | |
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| Lost Objects | |
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| Forgetting Someone | |
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| "The Rustle of History's Wings," as They Used to Say Then | |
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| 1978 Reunion of Palmach Veterans at Ma'ayan Harod | |
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| An Eternal Window | |
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| There Are Candles That Remember | |
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| On the Day My Daughter Was Born No One Died | |
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| All These Make a Dance Rhythm | |
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| In the Morning It Was Still Night | |
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| A Child Is Something Else Again | |
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| When I Have a Stomachache | |
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| I Feel Just Fine in My Pants | |
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| Jerusalem Is Full of Used Jews | |
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| Ecology of Jerusalem | |
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| In the Old City | |
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| Tourists | |
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| An Arab Shepherd Is Searching for His Goat on Mount Zion | |
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| A Song of Lies on Sabbath Eve | |
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| The Parents Left the Child | |
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| Love Is Finished Again | |
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| End of Summer in the Judean Mountains | |
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| Relativity | |
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| Poem Without an End | |
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| A Great Tranquility: Questions and Answers | |
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| 1924 | |
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| Half-Sized Violin | |
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| A Pace Like That | |
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| The Box | |
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| The Last Word Is the Captain | |
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| Statistics | |
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| The Hour of Grace | |
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| What a Complicated Mess | |
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| I Lost My Identity Card | |
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| On Mount Muhraka | |
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| Summer Begins | |
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| Hamadiya | |
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| At the Seashore | |
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| On Some Other Planet You May Be Right | |
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| Autumn Rain in Tel Aviv | |
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| A Flock of Sheep Near the Airport | |
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| Almost a Love Poem | |
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| They Are All Dice | |
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| A Precise Woman | |
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| Jasmine | |
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| Kibbutz Gevaram | |
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| History | |
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| The Real Hero | |
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| At the Maritime Museum | |
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| Try to Remember Some Details | |
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| A Man in His Life | |
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| My Mother Comes from the Days | |
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| Now She's Breathing | |
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| My Mother Died on Shavuot | |
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| The Body Is the Cause of Love | |
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| Orchard | |
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| Late Marriage | |
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| Inside the Apple | |
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| North of Beersheba | |
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| I Guard the Children | |
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| North of San Francisco | |
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| Fall in Connecticut | |
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| Sandals | |
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| Jerusalem, 1985 | |
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| Evidence | |
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| The Course of a Life | |
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| What Kind of Man | |
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| The Greatest Desire | |
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| Two Disappeared into a House | |
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| I Know a Man | |
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| Between | |
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| Summer Evening in the Jerusalem Mountains | |
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| At the Beach | |
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| The Sea and the Shore | |
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| Autumn Is Near and the Memory of My Parents | |
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| Yom Kippur | |
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| Beginning of Autumn in the Hills of Ephraim | |
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| Ruhama | |
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| Huleikat - The Third Poem about Dicky | |
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| The Shore of Ashkelon | |
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| Fields of Sunflowers | |
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| First Rain on a Burned Car | |
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| We Did What We Had To | |
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| Notes | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index of Titles | |