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WHILE A PROSE TRANSLATION MAY RECREATE THE original quite faithfully, the intricate nature of poetry makes a language change hazardous and the outcome often uneven. As translator for the University [...]

Reviewed by BERNHARD FRANK Viewed through the wrong end of the telescope Paul Celan is that Romanian-Jewish poet who, though serving in labor camps, kept on writing enigmatic verse in [...]

Reviewed by BERNHARD FRANK Viewed through the wrong end of the telescope Paul Celan is that Romanian-Jewish poet who, though serving in labor camps, kept on writing enigmatic verse in [...]

Reviewed by BERNHARD FRANK Viewed through the wrong end of the telescope Paul Celan is that Romanian-Jewish poet who, though serving in labor camps, kept on writing enigmatic verse in [...]

The Movements If we take, as is usual, Chayim Nachman Bialik's first published poem 'To a Bird' in Odessa in 1892 as its beginning, modern Hebrew poetry has only just [...]

Cain sits. His knife is in his wits, and his life regrets. The sun sets and he leaves the beach; sand clings to his conscience, and the salt tang spells-- [...]

I asked my students why Samson would, time and again, confide in Delilah when he had, time and again, seen that she was the enemy, when he must have known [...]

I The route across George Washington Bridge down a maze of cliff-lined highway is tortured and long. The cousins leaning forward in the limo chatter like harpies determined to take [...]

The antennas are weighed down with starlings planted on a cable like dusty corals-- a challenge to the sunset. Suddenly a cacophony of voices rises to heaven, a flight into [...]

Since I did not fight your wars, Since I fled your fire, Since I opted for Diaspora And left the holy for the profane I let you sing thru my [...]

The Western Wall BERNHARD FRANK The spittle of kisses suckles the moss in the stone; Samson size blocks of mountain laid side by side intransigent to human passion remind of [...]

Lemon lime orange & any kind of berry yet no closer to the fruit than formica is to oak or ash to yew or cherrywood. Crystal- studded 1/2 moons: translucent [...]

'I persist, forgotten-in the poem' Her Life Born in Elberfeld in 1869 (or 1876, according to the poet), Else Schuler was educated mostly by private tutors. Losing her brother Paul [...]

Presents the poem 'Returning to Germany: Forty-three Years Later.'

Presents a poem 'In Eden's Garden.'

Presents the poem 'Beatification of the Bitburg Dead.'

Presents a poem 'Lean A Ladder'.

Presents the poem 'The Light,' by Zvi Ya'ir.

Presents the poem 'She Turns Nevertheless.'

Presents the poem 'Departure.'