
Nameless Country
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A self-made migrant, Jacobs was a wanderer through other lands and lived in search, as he puts it, of the 'right language', which 'exists somewhere / Like a country'. His poems are attuned to linguistic and geographic otherness and to the lingering sense of exile that often persists in a diaspora. In his quiet and philosophical verse we recognise an individual's struggle for identity in a world shaped by migration, division and dislocation.
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Merle L. Bachman is an American Jewish poet with two full-length collections published by Shearsman Books in the UK: Diorama with Fleeing Figures and Blood Party. In addition to her scholarly work on A.C. Jacobs, she works in the field of American Yiddish literature. Syracuse University Press published her monograph, Recovering 'Yiddishland': Threshold Moments in American Literature. In 2015 she was a Translation Fellow of the Massachusetts-based Yiddish Book Center. Bachman is a Professor of English at Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky. Born in London in 1942, Anthony Rudolf has two children and three grandchildren. He is the author of books of literary criticism (on Primo Levi, Piotr Rawicz and others), autobiography (Silent Conversations and The Arithmetic of Memory) and poetry (Zigzag, The Same River Twice and collaborations with artists), and translator of books of poetry from French (Bonnefoy, Vigee, Jabes), Russian (Vinokourov and Tvardovsky) and other languages. He has edited various anthologies. His essay on R.B. Kitaj was published by the National Gallery in 2001, and he has published essays and shorter texts on other painters. He is Paula Rego's companion and her main male model. He has completed a volume of short stories and is now at work on two new memoirs. He is co-editor and one of the translators of two new Yves Bonnefoy selections for Carcanet Press. Rudolf's reviews, articles, poems, translations, obituaries and interviews with writers have appeared in numerous journals. He has been an occasional broadcaster on radio and television and was the founder of Menard Press, now dormant after nearly fifty years and 170 titles. After a lifetime of day jobs to top up his freelance activities, he became Visiting Lecturer in Arts and Humanities at London Metropolitan University (2000-2003) and Royal Literary Fund fellow at the Universities of Hertfordshire and Westminster (2003-2008). He is Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2004), Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (2005) and Fellow of the English Association (2010).
Content
- Front Cover
- About the Authors
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction (Merle L. Bachman)
- Background on the Collected Poems (Anthony Rudolf)
- 1. Early Poems
- Alien Poem
- Langside
- Poem for Innocent Victims of War
- Poem to a Sick Woman
- Poem for John Knox
- Towards a Grief
- For Certain Immigrants
- Oy
- Sovereign Penny
- The Infinite Scale
- You
- On a Trip to York
- 2. From The Proper Blessing
- Poem for My Grandfather
- Yiddish Poet
- Isaac
- 'Before There Was.'
- Before the Trial of Eichmann
- Taste
- Jerusalem
- Tel Aviv 3.30 AM
- Golders Green Address
- Mr Markson
- Grandmother
- Festa
- Remote Island
- Writing
- Travelling Abroad
- Visiting
- Where
- Booksellers
- Sound
- Three Poems about Death
- Antiquity
- Immigration
- The Hundred Pipers
- Return
- Sol
- 3. From A Bit of Dialect
- Speech
- Place
- Learning
- Breaking
- Out
- Work
- Region
- 4. '. cold diasporas.'
- I Choose Neither .
- In Early Spring
- Old Theme
- Supplication
- Record of a Walk Home
- 'Out Among.'
- N.W.2: Spring
- 'Introduction to A Scottish Sequence'
- Poem
- A Joke Across the North Sea
- 'My Fathers Planned Me.'
- January Poem
- Mosaic
- 'In an East Coast Fishing Village'
- 'Lately.'
- So Always
- 5. '. to my Promised Land'
- Notes for Uriel Da Costa
- Dr Zamenhof
- Patterns of Culture
- On a Balkan Visa
- 'Behind the Synagogue.'
- Woman Figure, South Turkey
- Menorah
- Bab El Wad
- Lesson of History
- Israeli Arab
- Painter
- Sabbath Morning: Mea Shearim
- Religious Quarter
- Hills
- Lesson Number 24
- The Departure
- Over There, Just Here
- By Kiryat Shemona
- Afterwards
- To a Teacher of Hebrew Literature
- Report
- 6. 'Place'
- About Making
- 'All Poets.'
- Leeds Pub
- Tongue
- Dear Mr Leonard
- 'It's as Though Someone Took an Axe'
- 'Despite the Real Spite'
- The Skuas
- 'From Oban.'
- 'Back in Manchester.'
- 'Among These Green Hills'
- What Are You Talking About?
- Hitching
- Edinburgh New Town
- State
- Place
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