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      FRAYED LIGHT

      WESLEYAN POETRY

      Yonatan Berg

      FRAYED LIGHT

      TRANSLATED BY JOANNA CHEN

      Wesleyan University Press

      Middletown, Connecticut

      Wesleyan University Press

      Middletown CT 06459

       www.wesleyan.edu/wespress

      © 2019 text by Yonatan Berg

      © 2019 English translation by Joanna Chen

      All rights reserved

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Designed and typeset in Merope by Eric M. Brooks

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      available upon request

      Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8195-7912-6

      Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8195-7913-3

      Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8195-7914-0

      FRONT COVER ILLUSTRATION:

      Anselm Kiefer. Velimir Chlebnikov, 2004 (detail)

      30 paintings: oil, emulsion, acrylic, lead and mixed media on canvas

      18 paintings: 75 × 130 inches (190.5 × 330 cm) each,

      12 paintings: 75 × 110 inches (190.5 × 280 cm) each

      Hall Collection, Courtesy of the Hall Art Foundation

      Photo: Stephen White, © Anselm Kiefer.

      5 4 3 2 1

      FOR

      GEULA &

      MAYA PAZ

      CONTENTS

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Part I | HANDS THAT ONCE HELD MANNA	1
Letter to the Reader	3
Unity	5
Particular Timing	6
The End of Naïveté	8
Map	10
Settlement	11
Ramallah through the Window of a Bus	13
Returning	15
Friday Market	17
Distance	18
Part II | DUST RISING FROM THE BLOW	21
Through the Eyes of Ramallah	23
The Mothers	24
After a Night in the Alley of Worshippers	25
Occupation of the Land	26
The Fighter Speaks	27
Jenin	28
Remembrance	29
Positive Identification	30
Hebron	31
Post-Trauma	32
After the War	33
Part III | AN ISAAC MOMENT	35
Improvisation	37
Odessa	39
A Late Landscape	41
Visitation	43
Father	44
Psalms	45
To My Mother	47
Part IV | WATER PIERCES ITSELF	49
Adam and Eve	51
Cain	52
Abel	53
Noah	54
Abraham	55
Sarah Expels Hagar