SHIRIM: A JEWISH POETRY JOURNAL

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Vol XXXI/II & XXXII/I (2013-2014)

Israeli Poets on War and Peace (Guest Editor: Barbara Goldberg)

Table of contents:

Section Author Title Page
Barbara Goldberg Foreward by Barbara Goldberg, Guest Editor 5
CONTENTS Alon Altaras The Houses That Were Mine 7
Yehuda Amichai Wildpeace 8
Dan Armon Eucalyptus 9
Peretz-Dror Banai Taste of Salt and Reckoning 10
Ella Bat-Tzion Peace 11
Moshe Ben-Shaul Soldier 12
Yaakov Besser Ruins 13
Rachel Chalfi Tel Aviv Beach, Winter ‘74 14
Ramy Ditzanny On Reflection 15
Moshe Dor The Hot Season 17
Anadad Eldan Spread Your Tabernacle 18
Yisrael Eliraz The Wars Passed Here 19
Eytan Eytan The Wind Grinds 20
Varda Genossar And Today Is A Holiday 21
Amir Gilboa My Brother Was Silent 22
Zerubavel Gilead Prayer for Peace 23
Chaim Gouri Piyyut for Rosh Hashana 24
Tanya Hadar Between Wars 25
Ra'aya Harnik I'm Narrowing My Boundaries 26
Yehiel Hazak The Man Going to War 27
Yehudit Kaffri Behind Front Lines 28
Azriel Kaufman And How My Brother Is Cain 29
Dahlia Kaveh April the Twentieth, 1948 30
Abba Kovner Mirage of Sand: Gates of the City 31
Yitzhak Laor Memory of Three Dead 32
Giora Leshem Born Between Alerts 33
Assia Margulis Corporal Rabinovitch's Corpse 34
Eli Netzer Peace Poem After a Ugaritic Inscription 35
Dan Pagis Twenty Years in the Valley 36
Yisrael Pincas Yitzhak and Amalya 37
Elisha Porat Migrating Birds 38
Dahlia Ravikovitch Beheaded Heifer 39
Asher Reich Each Year 41
Tuvia Ruebner And the Mother's Face in the Scales 42
Pinchas Sadeh The Angel 43
Tzippi Shahrur A Soldier Wept on the Radio 45
Elinoam Shalev Each War Took Me 46
Shin Shifra Merciful People 47
Aryeh Sivan The Lame Veteran 48
Ronny Someck Parachute Canopy 49
Shlomo Tan'ee Rains 50
Avner Treinin Enclosed Seas 51
Meir Wieseltier I've No Words 52
Ittamar Yaoz-Kest Every Day the Radio 53
Natan Yonatan Autumnal Thoughts 54
Shlomo Zamir Song of the Disabled Ex-Servicemen 55
Zelda Each Rose 56
Biographies 57

A pdf of the table of contents from the original issue is available here.