Table of Contents
Note on Transliteration vii
Translator's Introduction ix
From Captive (1955)
Captive 3
From Wall (1956)
Sin 5
Lost 6
Grief-Worshipper 8
Wall 9
From Rebellion (1958)
God's Rebellion 11
Knot 13
Return 15
From Far Away 17
Much Later 19
From Another Birth (1964)
Those Days 21
The Sun Comes Out 25
On the Soil 27
The Wind Will Carry Us 29
In the Green Waters of Summer 30
Realizing 33
Love Poem 35
Border Walls 38
Friday 41
Wind-Up Doll 42
My Lover 44
In the Cold Streets of Night 46
In a Never-Ending Twilight 48
Earthly Verses 52
Gift 56
Green Illusion 57
Pair 60
The Victory of the Garden 61
Rose 63
The Bird Was Just a Bird 64
O Jeweled Land 65
I Will Greet the Sun Again 70
Another Birth 71
Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season (1974)
Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season 74
After You 83
Window 86
I Pity the Garden 89
Someone Who Is Like No One 93
Only the Sound Remains 96
The Bird Is Mortal 98
Notes 99
Selected Bibliography 105
Acknowledgments 107