TY - BOOK ID - 78138780 TI - The poetry of Kabbalah AU - Cole, Peter AU - Dykman, Aminadav PY - 2012 SN - 1280571225 9786613600820 0300183615 9780300183610 9780300169164 0300169167 9781280571220 PB - New Haven [Conn.] Yale University Press DB - UniCat KW - Cabala. KW - Jewish religious poetry, Hebrew. KW - Mysticism KW - Piyutim KW - Piyutim. KW - Piyyutim KW - Hebrew poetry, Medieval KW - Hymns, Hebrew KW - Jewish hymns KW - Jewish religious poetry, Hebrew KW - Judaism KW - Religious poetry, Hebrew KW - Hebrew poetry KW - Cabbala KW - Jews KW - Kábala KW - Kabalah KW - Kabbala KW - Kabbalah KW - Qabalah KW - Jewish literature KW - Magic KW - History and criticism. KW - Liturgy KW - Cabala UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78138780 AB - This groundbreaking collection presents for the first time in English a substantial body of poetry that emerges directly from the sublime and often startling world of Jewish mysticism. Taking up Gershom Scholem's call to plumb the "tremendous poetic potential" concealed in the Kabbalistic tradition, Peter Cole provides dazzling renderings of work composed on three continents over a period of some fifteen hundred years.In addition to the translations and the texts in their original languages, Cole supplies a lively and insightful introduction, along with accessible commentaries to the poems. Aminadav Dykman adds an elegant afterword that places the work in the context of world literature. As a whole, the collection brings readers into the fascinating force field of Kabbalistic verse, where the building blocks of both language and existence itself are unveiled.Excerpts from The Poetry of Kabbalah have been featured in the Paris Review, Poetry, and Conjunctions."Studded with insight, and written with great verve, this book will become a classic."-Lawrence Fine, author of Physician of the Soul, Healer of the Cosmos ER -