Open Closed Open（ISBN=9780156030502）

In poems marked by tenderness and mischief, humanity and humor, Yehuda Amichai breaks open the grand diction of revered Jewish verses and casts the light of his own experi-ence upon them. Here he tells of history, a nation, the self, love, and resurrection. Amichai's last volume is one of medi-tation and hope, and stands as a testament to one of Israel's greatest poets. "Open closed open. Before we are born, everything is open""in the universe without us. For as long as we live, everything is closed""within us. And when we die, everything is open again.""Open closed open. That's all we are."--"from" "I WASN'T ONE OF THE SIX MILLION: AND WHAT IS MY LIFE SPAN? OPEN CLOSED OPEN"

The Amen Stone
I Wasn't One of the Six Million:
And What Is My Life Span? Open Closed Open
I Foretell the Days of Yore
The Bible and You, the Bible and You, and Other Midrashim
Once I Wrote Now and in Other Days:
Thus Glory Passes, Thus Pass the Psalms
Gods Change, Prayers Are Here to Stay
David, King of Israel, Is Alive: Thou Art the Man
My Parents' Lodging Place
What Has Always Been
Israeli Travel: Otherness Is All, Otherness Is Love
Evening Promenade on Valley of the Ghosts Street
Summer and the Far End of Prophecy
Houses (Plural); Love (Singular)
The Language of Love and Tea with Roasted Almonds
The Precision of Pain and the Blurriness of Joy:
The Touch of Longing Is Everywhere
In My Life, on My Life
Jewish Travel: Change Is God and Death Is His Prophet
Names, Names, in Other Days and in Our Time
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Why Jerusalem?
Conferences, Conferences: Malignant Words, Benign Speech
My Son Was Drafted
Autumn, Love, Commercials
And Who Will Remember the Rememberers?
The Jewish Time Bomb
Notes
Acknowledgments