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THE IYYOB TRANSLATION FROM 'A-15' by LOUIS ZUKOFSKY

Poem Explanation Poet Analysis

First Line: AN / HINNY / BY / STALLION
Last Line: WHITE PODS OF HONESTY / SATINFLOWER
Subject(s): JEWS; MYSTICISM - JUDAISM; JUDAISM;

An
hinny
by
stallion
out of
she-ass

He neigh ha lie low h'who y'he gall mood
So roar cruel hire
Lo to achieve an eye leer rot off
Mass th'lo low o loam echo
How deal me many coeval yammer
Naked on face of white rock -- sea.
@3Then@1 I said: Liveforever my nest
Is arable hymn
Shore she root to water
Dew anew to branch.

Wind: Yahweh at Iyyob
Mien His roar 'Why yammer
Measly make short hates oh
By milling bleat doubt?
Eye sore gnaw key heaver haul its core
Weigh as I lug where hide any?
If you -- had you towed beside the roots?
How goad Him -- you'd do it by now --
My sum My made day a key to daw?
O Me not there allheal -- a cave.

All mouth deny hot bough?
O me you're raw -- Heaven pinned Dawn stars
Brine I heard choir and weigh by care --
Why your ear would call by now Elohim:
Where was soak -- bid lot tie in hum --
How would you have known to hum
How would you all oats rose snow lay
Assay how'd a rock light rollick ore
Had the rush in you curb, ah bay,
But the shophar yammer @3heigh horse'@1

Wind: Yahweh at Iyyob 'Why yammer,'
Wind: Iyyob at Yahweh 'Why yammer
How cold the mouth achieved echo.'
Wind: Yahweh at Iyyob 'Why yammer
Ha neigh now behemoth and share I see see your make
Giddy pair -- stones -- whose rages go
Weigh raw all gay where how spill lay who'
Wind: Iyyob
'Rain without sun hated? @3hurt no one@1
In two we shadow, how hide any.'


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