Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE IYYOB TRANSLATION FROM 'A-15', by LOUIS ZUKOFSKY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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. Then 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 heigh horse' 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? hurt no one In two we shadow, how hide any.' Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271, www.cc.press.org | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE RABBI'S SON-IN-LAW by SABINE BARING-GOULD A LITTLE HISTORY by DAVID LEHMAN FOR I WILL CONSIDER YOUR DOG MOLLY by DAVID LEHMAN JEWISH GRAVEYARDS, ITALY by PHILIP LEVINE NATIONAL THOUGHTS by YEHUDA AMICHAI SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#3): 2. ANGEL ... by MARVIN BELL SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MRS. PURKAPILE by EDGAR LEE MASTERS LINES WRITTEN AT THE GRAVE OF ALEXANDER DUMAS by GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT NON SUM QUALIS ERAM BONAE SUB REGNO CYNARAE by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON |
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