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Vulture in a Cage: Poems by Solomon Ibn Gabirol Kindle Edition
"Vulture in a cage," Solomon Ibn Gabirol's own self-description, is an apt image for a poet who was obsessed with the impediments posed by the body and the material world to the realization of his spiritual ambition of elevating his soul to the empyrean. Ibn Gabirol's poetry is enormously influential, laying the groundwork for generations of Hebrew poets who follow him--rocky and harsh, full of original imagery and barbed wit, and yet no one surpassed him for the limpid beauty of his devotional verse. His poetry is at once a record of the inner life of a tormented poet and a monument to the Judeo-Arabic culture that produced him. This book contains the most extensive collection of Ibn Gabirol's poetry ever published in English.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherArchipelago
- Publication dateDecember 6, 2016
- File size27855 KB
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"Ibn Gabirol's poetry is enormously influential, laying the groundwork for generations of Hebrew poets who follow him--rocky and harsh, full of original imagery and barbed wit, and yet no one surpassed him for the limpid beauty of his devotional verse." — Jewish Book Council
"This detailed depiction of a winter scene is among the treasures in Raymond P. Scheindlin’s new book of flowing English translations of secular and sacred poems by Solomon Ibn Gabirol..." — Haaretz
"Beautiful locutions about love, longing, and desire." --Choice
"[Solomon Ibn Gabirol] is considered one of the fathers of Hebrew poetry" --Hebrew Studies
"Ibn Gabirol sets the archetype for spiritual turbulence in all subsequent Jewish poetry. ...A bitter personality and yet a sublime visionary." — Harold Bloom
"[Solomon Ibn Gabirol's] poetry was written in a style that did not conform to the esthetics of his age but that today is part of the way we live." — Amos Lassen
"Such unpredictable, uniquely structured poems, intent on self-expression, were written... most strikingly by Solomon Ibn Gabirol. His personal poems reveal a divided spirit trying in vain to achieve wisdom and peace of mind, a man isolated from society, hated and feared by people who were unable to comprehend his philosophy...The speaker in these poems... is torn between hate, fear, and pride, but miraculously triumphs over himself... His imagery is full of surprises... Ibn Gabirol added a new dimension – searching introspection – to Hebrew poetry." — Dan Pagis, Hebrew Poetry of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
"Being medieval, these poems inevitably demonstrate the scope of religious language in their explorations of nature, drink, love, sex, boasting, friendship and loneliness. They are by turns, witty, satirical, elegiac--and always allusive." --Jane Liddell-King, Jewish Chronicle
"This detailed depiction of a winter scene is among the treasures in Raymond P. Scheindlin’s new book of flowing English translations of secular and sacred poems by Solomon Ibn Gabirol..." — Haaretz
"Beautiful locutions about love, longing, and desire." --Choice
"[Solomon Ibn Gabirol] is considered one of the fathers of Hebrew poetry" --Hebrew Studies
"Ibn Gabirol sets the archetype for spiritual turbulence in all subsequent Jewish poetry. ...A bitter personality and yet a sublime visionary." — Harold Bloom
"[Solomon Ibn Gabirol's] poetry was written in a style that did not conform to the esthetics of his age but that today is part of the way we live." — Amos Lassen
"Such unpredictable, uniquely structured poems, intent on self-expression, were written... most strikingly by Solomon Ibn Gabirol. His personal poems reveal a divided spirit trying in vain to achieve wisdom and peace of mind, a man isolated from society, hated and feared by people who were unable to comprehend his philosophy...The speaker in these poems... is torn between hate, fear, and pride, but miraculously triumphs over himself... His imagery is full of surprises... Ibn Gabirol added a new dimension – searching introspection – to Hebrew poetry." — Dan Pagis, Hebrew Poetry of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
"Being medieval, these poems inevitably demonstrate the scope of religious language in their explorations of nature, drink, love, sex, boasting, friendship and loneliness. They are by turns, witty, satirical, elegiac--and always allusive." --Jane Liddell-King, Jewish Chronicle
About the Author
Solomon ben Judah Ibn Gabirol (sometimes Latinized as Avicebron) was a Andalusian-Hebrew theologian, philosopher, and poet from the 11th century, who left behind a body of work that contains singularly profound meditations on the nature of the sacred, and the relationship between the subject and divinity. These poetic writings on himself are far from solipsistic, rather, through the lens of selfhood, Solomon Ibn Gabirol works to understand the realms of the transcendental and the mystical as experiences that are inseparable from the personal reality of the individual. What links all of his work is an expressionistic descriptiveness and for this, the poetry of Solomon ibn Gabirol has been acclaimed for almost a millennium; his ability to portray the grand majesty of the cosmos through the complexity of the individual, is truly timeless.
Product details
- ASIN : B01BAYKRSY
- Publisher : Archipelago (December 6, 2016)
- Publication date : December 6, 2016
- Language : English
- File size : 27855 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Not Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 250 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,789,793 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #145 in Spanish Poetry (Kindle Store)
- #443 in Medieval Poetry
- #614 in German Poetry (Books)
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Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2017
It is very difficult to find another book on this subject done so well. The preface is interesting in describing a little about the Jewish Golden Age in Spain and the dividing between secular and liturgical is also well done
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A Beautiful Book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 2, 2018
A delight to look at and hold as well as read. This is eloquent testimony to Raymond Scheindlin's scholarship and facility with language. The only collection of Ibn Gabirol you'll ever need, and by far the most accessible.
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Ibn Gabirol and his passionate, anxious soul
Reviewed in Japan on June 5, 2021
This book contains both Hebrew writing and the translated version of Ibn Gabirol’s poems which is definitely a plus. I’m reading this, originally for uni work yet now I am obsessed with it personally.
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Reviewed in Japan on June 5, 2021
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