A Big Jewish book : poems & other visions of the Jews from tribal times to present /
Brings together an unprecedented range of "poems" and other visions of the Jews from tribal times to present.
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Garden City, N.Y. :
Anchor Press,
1978.
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Table of Contents:
- The ways : A book of powers : The first, the last : a poem of Ezra
- From the greater hekhalot : a cosmic hymn
- From Elya : door II / Edmond Jabès
- From the great holy assembly : the names / Moses de Leon
- From sefer Raziel : hymn
- A poem for the sefirot as a wheel of light / Naftali Bacharach
- 1st light poem / Jackson Mac Low
- From Aether / Allen Ginsberg
- A prologue to "the vision of the chariot"
- The vision of the chariot / Ezekiel ben Buzi
- From Shi'ur Koma : the measure of the body / Ishmael ben Elisha
- Tablet V / Armand Schwerner
- A prologue to "the book of concealment"
- From the book of concealment : the forms/the faces
- For the beard of the great face : a vision and a poem
- A poem for the small face / Issac Luria
- A poem for the Shekinah on the Feast of the Sabbath / Isaac Luria
- There is a beautiful maiden who has no eyes who is the true messiah / Jack Hirschman
- From lyrics for the bride of God : the kitchen / Nathaniel Tarn
- From the revelation of Moses : a poem for the seventh heavens
- From the apocalypse of Gorgorios : the temple
- The primordial Torah as the cloak of God / Solomon ben Hayim Eliashu
- From the greater hekhalot : the door keepers
- Before the law / Franz Kafka
- From the book of Enoch : visions of the sons of God
- Angel / Tristan Tzara
- From the book of the left pillar / Moses of Burgos
- From hero/Lil / David Meltzer
- The Sethians, per Hippolytos : the 3 of beginning : light, dark, spirit
- From the crown of the kingdom / Solomon ibn Gabirol
- A book of worlds : From the hidden sacred book of Moses called "eighth" or "holy"
- From Elya : the disappearance / Edmond Jabès
- The withdrawal, the exile / Joseph Gikatilla
- The yod of creation / Simeon bar Yphai, per Moses de Leon
- From livingdying / Cid Corman
- A prologue to "the Torah of the void"
- From the Torah of the void / Nachman of Bratzlav
- Nothing / Joseph Gikatilla
- From the vertical inscriptions / Shên Ch'üan, of Hua-t'ing
- Fragment / Franz Kafka
- From the book of formation : numbers
- E / Albert Einstein
- From glowing enigmas / Nelly Sachs
- The mind of Genesis / David Slabotsky
- Time / Harvey Shapiro
- A prologue to Genesis
- The ten words of creation (Samaritan)
- Variations on Genesis
- From the pirke de Rabbi Eliezer
- The end / Allen Ginsberg
- From the Joe 82 creation poems / Rochelle Ownes
- A prologue to the elements of creation
- Fire-poem : "& then an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a tongue of fire" / Yannai
- Water-poem : A prayer & invocation to the prince of rain / Eleazar ha-Kallir
- From the Hebrew book of Enoch : air-poem : these are the many winds that blow under the cherubs' wings
- From the Domesday dictionary : Earth / Armand Schwerner
- Double memory / Carol Bergé
- Psalm 19 / David Rosenberg
- From the book of mysteries : rites for the sun
- The code of day & night
- From talismans : star magic / Richard Grossinger
- From the Zohar : moon / Moses de Leon
- Three poems / Clarisse Nicoidski
- From the black plague / David Antin
- Poem with sky & earth / Samuel ha-Nagid
- And with the book from Tarussa Menorah
- From the great sentence : fire/tree / Simon Magus
- The inner trees / Yvan Goll
- A poem & a commentary on creation, destruction, preservation, etc. / Larry Eigner
- A prologue to the works of Adam
- From the fathers according to Rabbi Nathan
- From the book Baruch : the garden / Justin the Gnostic
- Green / Asa Benveniste
- From the Naasene cosmology : the serpent
- Serpent / Nathan of Gaza
- From anatomy of a war / T. Carmi
- The wind
- two trees
- men and women / Harris Lenowitz
- The Iyyob translation from "A-15" / Louis Zukofsky
- From the book of Job : whirlwind
- The visions : A book of beards : From patriarchal poetry / Gertrude Stein
- From the book of Genesis : begettings
- The song of Lilith (that has no ending) / Rossana Ombres
- From the Genesis apocryphon : the mystery
- From the book of Enoch : the animal visions
- From the Genesis apocryphon : after the flood
- From bottom : on Shakespeare / Louis Zukofsky
- From the book of formation : the father
- From the Genesis apocryphon : of Sarah
- From the book of Genesis : the offering
- The sacrifice / Howard Schwartz
- From the book of Genesis : Jacob & the angel
- From the testaments of the 12 patriarchs : Joseph & the bull
- Exodus / George Oppen
- A prologue to the works of Moses
- The birth of Moses / From Molad Mosheh
- The image of speech at Sinai / Eleazar ben Judah of Worms
- From the book of Exodus : song of the sea
- A dialogue
- the death of Moses
- come-down
- From the book of psalms : 12 for Yahveh
- From the first book of Samuel : after the shamans
- From Tohu : shaman / David Meltzer
- From the Dead Sea psalms : David
- The Davithea incantation
- "If the prophets broke in" / Nelly Sachs
- A vision in the voice of Yahveh / Amos the prophet
- From the book of Daniel : night dreams
- A dream service
- Elijah & the priests of Baal : in a time of famine
- From a poem about Ashera : how she goes to the bull god El to seek a house for Baal her son
- In the mountain of the song that shows / Raquel Jodorowsky
- From the alphabet of Ben Sira : the birth
- A poem for the high priest, sung thereafter on the day of the Kippurim, as he was celebrated also in the wisdom of Ben Sira / Meshullam the Great ben Kalonymos
- From travels of a latter-day Benjamin of Tudela / Yehuda Amichai
- The children of the flowers of the priesthood : 4 poems with commentary for the temple / Jerome Rothenberg
- From the acts of Saint John : the round dance of Jesus
- From prologue in six parts / Armand Schwerner
- From the Babylonian Talmud : Torah on Earth
- A poem for Bar Yohai
- From the Babylonian Talmud : beauty that withers
- The great lament
- A book of the wars of Yahveh : From I am the babe of Joseph Stalin's daughter / Rochelle Ownes
- Palestine under the Romans / Charles Rezenikoff
- A poem for the masters / Abba Yose ben Hananiah
- From apocalypse : the woman / School of John the Baptist
- The prophecy of Jesus ben Hananiah / Jesus ben Hananiah
- From Toldot Yeshu : the magician
- Corpus Christi play / Lenny Bruce
- The story of Simon & Helen / Simon Magus, per Irenaeus
- A spell for a blaspheming woman
- From Jerusalem the golden / Charles Reznikoff
- A Karaite dirge for the fall of Jerusalem
- The withdrawal of the Shekinah from her home in the temple / Yehuda ben Idi
- A song of the mourners of Zion
- From the Shule of Jehovah / Arlene Stone
- From the war of the sons of light against the sons of darkness
- A letter & a dirge to mark the ending of the Second Roman War / Simeon Bar Kokhba
- A curse & angry poem against the nations
- From Midrash of the absent : messiah / Moses de Leon
- "A great music" / Piyut
- From Jehuda Halevi's songs to Zion / Judah ha-Levi, per Charles Reznikoff
- How he went as messiah in the name of Angel Raziel to confront the pope / Abraham Abulafia
- The Muslim : a dream / Hayim Vital
- The rainbow calendar of Isaac Luria
- "1648" : for Cossacks
- From the vision of Rabbi Abraham : the birth and circumstances of the messiah Sabbatai Zevi
- From Satan in Goray : the faithful / Isaac Bashevis Singer
- 4 poems for Sabbatai Zevi the true messiah as drawn from hymns sung by his faithful followers after his conversion to Islam for the greater glory fo the God of Israel
- The song of the sexton
- From the Golem wheel / David Meltzer
- From the book of the sayings of the Lord / Jacob Frank
- From drypoints of the Hasidim : the Baal Shem / F.T. Prince
- Rabbi Nachman's dream / Howard Schwartz
- The illustrious ancestors / Denise Levertov
- Five for the Rebbe
- The cemetary at Kozin / Isaac Babel
- Poor people / Rajzel Zychlinska
- Two poems / Peretz Markish
- Zaritsky's children & other poems for the rich
- The voluminous agony of Karl Marx / Rochelle Owens
- A lullaby for tsars / Sholem Aleichem
- From Ginivishov, Poland
- 1885 : memory map / Harry Lieberman & Roger Welch
- From the East Village 1970-1971 / Richard Kostelanetz
- From "A-12" / Louis Zukofsky
- Bowery motifs / Aleph Katz
- From the last words of Dutch Schultz / Arthur "Dutch Schultz" Flegenheimer
- The Murder, Inc. sutra / Jerome Rothenberg
- Poem / Osip Mandelstam
- From the flea of Sodom / Edward Dahlberg
- Good night, world / Jacob Glatstein
- A death fugue / Paul Celan
- From God in Europe / Uri Zvi Greenberg
- The stranger / David Ignatow
- From El Topo : the death of the fourth master / Alexander Jodorowsky
- From liner notes to Highway 61 revisited / Bob Dylan
- National thoughts / Yehuda Amichai
- Jaweh and Allah battle / Allen Ginsberg
- From the conspiracy / Edouard Roditi
- Semite / George Oppen
- A book of extensions : From the book of the letter / Abraham Abulafia
- From the hidden sacred book of Moses called "eighth" or "holy" vowel poem
- A performance from "the secret book of Moses on the great name"
- The young girl's tears : a closed poem / Isidore Isou
- From the Hebrew book of Enoch
- From life of the world to come : the permutations / Abraham Abulafia
- From the garden of the pomegranates : the unity of God / Moses Cordovero
- Amulet on the Tetragrammation
- Concrete poem : "YHVH Great God"
- From le coeur à Gaz / Tristan Tzara
- Composition around the ineffable name / Moses Cordovero
- Name event one
- Name event two
- Name event three
- From life of the world to come : circles / Abraham Abulafia
- From on the Hebrew letters : exile / Jack Hirschman
- From image of the wall / Wallace Berman
- From clairvoyant journal : the initiation / Hannah Weiner
- The Masora calligrams
- A prayer for the king
- Calligram / Tristan Tzara
- The scroll of Esther as a bear / Hirsch Ilya Schlimowitz
- Celestial alphabet event / Jacques Gaffarel
- The 10 sefirot as a labyrinth of letters / Moses Cordovero
- The numbers / Maria Hebrea
- A talisman for Venus
- A number blessing / Charlie Morrow
- A poem with numbers for the dead
- The counting made the corners right / Rose Drachler
- 25 gematria
- Additional meanings : 46=chaos
- Apple-Lilith night / Charles Stein
- Variations on a Hebrew amulet
- Kaddish Gatha / Jackson Mac Low
- Zohar event : a simultaneity for 10 or more readers
- From the Havdala of Rabbi Akiba
- From an amulet against the evil eye
- 4.5.10.11.2.8.4.2., the 2nd biblical poem / Jackson Mac Low
- An epitaph
- From the Babylonian Talmud : the signs
- Chance composition no.1
- Chance composition no.2
- From mannifesto on feeble & bitter love / Tristan Tzara
- From the Mishnah : clean & unclean
- From an elucidation / Gertrude Stein
- A poem of the measures / Ishmael ben Elisha
- From meditations / David Antin
- Sounding events
- Word events
- Golem meditation events
- Sound event : the silent orchestra
- Allan Kaprow : words : an environment
- Body work
- Lemon event
- Poor man music (1966)
- Rain event one
- Rain event two
- Women's fertility events
- Bread event
- The living theatre, per Judith Malina & Julian Beck : Paradise now : the chart
- Tree spirit events
- Vision event / Nachman of Bratzlav
- A scenario for midnight
- A book of writings : 1 : The Gezar calendar
- YHVH's battle with the serpent The song of Deborah
- From the song of songs
- Psalm 137
- From the elephantine fragments
- Ezekielos : Eisagoge, or the tragedy of Moses
- From the Sibylline oracles
- The maiden
- 2 : An incantation bowl against the powers
- A calendar : the year of the messiah / Eleazar ha-Kallir
- The "who?" of Ibn Abitur of Cordoba / Yosef ibn Abitur
- Three love poems / Samuel ha-Nagid
- War poem : when we conquered their land destroyed the fortresses & towers subjugated villages & towns & overwhelmed the capital with violence / Samuel ha-Nagid
- The 16-year-old poet / Solomon ibn Gabirol
- Constellations / Solomon ibn Gabirol
- Two poems / Moses ibn Ezra, per Carl Rakosi
- The garden / Judah ha-Levi
- "I have a garment" / Abraham ibn Ezra
- Proensa / Isaac ben Abraham Gorni
- Italian sonnet / Immanuel ben Solomon of Rome
- From stone of choice / Kalonymos ben Kalonymos
- The castle / Maulana Sahin
- "Children of the times" / Israel ben Moses Najara
- 3 : A charm against Lilith (Hebrew)
- The evil eye (the good eye) Einehore (Yiddish)
- A poem to ease childbirth (German)
- A Sabbatean amulet against all evils (Hebrew)
- Sabbatai Zevi's song for the Shekinah our lady of the Torah (Ladino)
- Children's rain songs (Judeo-Arabic)
- Bride's song against demons (Arabic)
- Young woman's Neo-Aramaic Jewish Persian blues (Neo-Aramaic)
- Lullaby a story (Yiddish)
- The thief's play (Yiddish)
- "O night lights of Jew Town" : a song of the Hara
- From the adventures of the Jew (Judeo-Aramaic)
- 4 : Morphine / heinrich Heine
- From the dream-work / Sigmund Freud
- From a sonatina followed by another / Gertrude Stein
- Prose poem : 1914 / Max Jacob
- Fragment / Franz Kafka
- The Charlie Chaplin poem / Osip Mandelstam
- Two poems / Charles Reznikoff
- Cadenza & what we can learn from his death / Jacob Glatstein
- Tristan Tzara / Tristan Tzara
- Her face the book of
- love delights in
- praises / Louis Zukofsky
- From the book of questions / Edmond Jabès
- From lyrics for the bride of God : sparagmos / Nathaniel Tarn
- Paper knights / Moshe Sartel
- Zurich, zum Storchen
- A note on transliteration
- Sources, & c.