Nineveh
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Nineveh

  1. 96 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Nineveh

About this book

Nineveh takes its modernist bearings from Edmond Jabès, Paul Celan and Yehudah Amichai; but also, merrily, from John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara. Zohar Atkins's poems offer humour and hospitality alongside deep learning and enigmatic, mystical theophany. The division between secular and religious is blurred, the two coexist in a generous exchange. The Bible is near at hand but rendered unfamiliar in the combination of anachronism with classical allusion. The poems produce jarring, contemporary Midrashim – interpretative retellings of canonical tales. Cain and Abel appear as business executives, Ishmael is a Palestinian dying in an Israeli hospital, Rachel and Leah are the projected identities of a demented Jacob, and God is a perfectionist who procrastinates by binge-watching TV. These poems are for intellectuals disenchanted with intellectualism and for seekers and sensualists in search of a renewing approach to language. Scholar and rabbi, Atkins has learned that poetry and not erudition offers a securer saving power.

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Information

Publisher
Carcanet Poetry
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9781784107390
eBook ISBN
9781784107406
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
American Poetry
Index
Literature

Outside Echoes

The best way to satisfy your baby
is surely
not by junking it.
Start again with smoke
on the face
of distinction.
Start with the neutral-
ised myth of
necessary ancestors.
I knew it was a lie
to use signs
you would take
As colonial, but nu?
We were playing
it out, each
Turn a negation
split to accord
what no time can
Afford. Let the page
dictate you
for a change.
Let meno-pause
be literal, hot
as an archetype.
Let the typography
of state violence
not be charmed
Through proximity.
Notice the Guatemalan
figure placing onions
And peppers
back in their proper
stall.
Will you prefer the hedge
fund manager
with the blind daughter
Over the night-shift golem?
Will you point out
the false logic
Of this binary
and not see that you also
use it? Today’s thieves
Are tomorrow’s resisters.
Today’s desecrators
are yesterday’s
Sanctifiers...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Protest
  5. System Baby
  6. The Sin
  7. Fake Judaism
  8. The Binding of Isaac
  9. Some Pogs
  10. Fugue or Fondue?
  11. Outside Echoes
  12. Déjà Vu
  13. Seeker’s Psalm
  14. Descent
  15. Song of Myself (Apocryphal)
  16. The Oy of the Poyem: 28 Exercises in non-Mastery
  17. Poetry TedTalk Notes
  18. Poetry Is Failure by Other Means
  19. Soundbytes
  20. Tosefta
  21. Say
  22. Dear Guru
  23. Dementia
  24. Letting Nothing Wait
  25. Villanelle
  26. Hermeneutics
  27. What Did the Heavenly Ministers Do?
  28. In the Beginning
  29. Cain and Abel
  30. Radish
  31. Teraphim
  32. Prayer
  33. Rahab
  34. Where, Oh Lord?
  35. Lord, You Know
  36. Praying with My Feet
  37. CV
  38. Self-Portrait As a Poetry Bot
  39. Apologies in Advance
  40. Innocence Is Never Luxuriant
  41. Subway Poem
  42. These Gyros of Inattention
  43. Sent
  44. The Consolation of Poetry
  45. Mychal
  46. David
  47. Two Great Lights
  48. Lost and Found
  49. Opportunity Cost
  50. Nineveh
  51. Elegy For A Special Kid
  52. Yom Kippur 2017
  53. Pirkei Avot
  54. Blackbirds
  55. Why You No Longer Pray Amongst the Ruins
  56. Doorknob Poem
  57. Without Without Title
  58. Acknowledgements
  59. About the Author
  60. Copyright