SHIRIM: A JEWISH POETRY JOURNAL

Over 40 years publishing poetry of Jewish Reference

XIV/I (Jul 1995)

The Poetry of Haim Gouri and Michael Heller

Table of contents:

Section Author Title Page
Editorial Note 3
POETRY OF HAIM GOURI S. F. Chyet Introduction 4
Inheritance 7
His Mother 8
In the Amorite City 9
My Samsons 10
Jonah 11
Thorns 15
Jericho 16
Rachel 17
Smell of the Field 18
A Wicked King 19
A Crown 21
Maybe It Will Come to Pass 22
POETRY OF MICHAEL HELLER Introduction 23
The American Jewish Clock 24
In a Dark Time, on His Grandfather 25
Accidental Meeting with an Israeli Poet 26
Palestine 27
In the Builded Place 29
The Acoustics of Emptiness 31
Asthma 32
In the Mountains, Lines of Chinese Poetry 33
Two Swans in a Meadow by the Sea 34
Mamaloshon 35
Biographical Notes 36

A pdf of the table of contents from the original issue is available here.