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And What Will Happen? -- Iron Dream -- The Sabbath Song -- My Language -- The Wind Has Grown Old -- I Kick Off My Shoes and Socks in Exhaustion -- Flood -- Shulames -- On the Paper Bridge -- Glorious Shulames Comes to Solomon the King -- The Light of Your Table -- Love -- I Am an Echo -- Pages -- Moses and Aaron -- Jonah -- Shelter Me in a Leaf -- Random Sinking -- In Jerusalem, Angels Come -- In the Land of Israel -- God's Children -- Our Ship -- A Refugee -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Backcover. Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Kathryn Hellerstein -- A Note on the Translation -- I. Kheshvndike nekht (Nights of Heshvan), Vilna, 1927 -- Women-Poems -- Fallen Leaves -- Otwock -- At Blue Dawn -- Today Is a Quiet Day -- Thirst -- Prayers -- Clay-Ground -- Poor Women -- II. Mayselekh (Tales), Warsaw, 1931 -- Olke -- The River -- The Tale of a Washtub -- Little Shoes -- The Cricket -- Open the Gate -- III. Afn barg (On the Mountain), New York, 1938 -- Marzipans -- A Letter. IV. Dzshike gas (Dzshike Street), Warsaw, 1933, 1936 -- Dzshike Street -- Marching -- A Mother -- A Street in the Year 1930 -- Chronicle -- My Paper Bridge -- Self-Portrait -- A Letter -- At the Mirror -- My Room, Then, Is a Ship -- I Still Don't Have a Gray Hair, Not a One -- January -- Hello, My Heart! -- In the Green Tree Lies Gray Ash (Selections) -- Jeremiah -- A Poem to My Clothes Closet -- Shloyminke the Blacksmith -- V. Freydke (Freydke), Warsaw, 1935, 1936 -- From Freydke: A Long Poem -- I Freydke -- II The Low Ceiling -- IV In Pshenytsa's Workshop -- V Strike -- My Tow-Boat. In the Magnificent Dwelling of Eternity -- Leavetaking -- Night Visitors -- Khad Gadya -- The Unrecounted Page -- Psalm of Ascents -- Veiling -- Dead Sabbath -- The Fife-Player of Sodom -- Only King David Remained -- Havdalah -- No Letters Arrive Anymore -- A Prayer -- A Poem to the Paper Bridge -- My Children -- The Little Foxes, Little Foxes -- The Rivalry of Writers Increases Wisdom -- My Harness -- In the Stable of Life -- VIII. Likht fun dornboym (Light of the Thorn Bush), Buenos Aires, 1965 -- Without Words -- The Song of Diogenes -- My Ship of Gopher Wood. My Day -- My Father's Fur Coat -- VI. In land fun mayn gebeyn (In the Country of My Bones), Chicago, 1937 -- My Ultimate Biography -- When Nobody Calls Me -- At the Threshhold -- In the Country of My Bones -- A White Poet -- In My Hand Two Feathers from a Pheasant -- Alphabet Letters -- Legacy -- VII. Der melekh dovid aleyn iz geblibn (Only King David Remained), New York, 1946 -- Merciful God -- A Letter to Elijah the Prophet -- Letters from the Ghetto -- A Poem about Itself -- To a Child's Portrait -- The Shofar Blower -- Proposition.
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