Avrom sutzkever biography definition
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Avrom Sutzkever
A SMILE AT THE END OF THE WORLD
Maybe a law of gravitation was in force here too:
Suddenly I found myself attracted to a strange unknown city. This city wasn’t included in the itinerary of my voyage round the world by air. I didn’t even know its name, or whether such a clime was to be found on Earth at all.
It happened this way:
When the airplane slid out of the slanted air onto the silky smooth runway, on its way to kick out some passengers to their connecting flight, glugging itself full of gas, or some other drinkable, en route to another nonstop across the sea — I nonchalantly grabbed my bag and in a daze followed the few passengers off the plane.
I miraculously got free of the high, transparent aerodrome, where the people looked like flies under a huge glass.
I left without saying goodbye to my stewardess, the beautiful daughter of Bengal, with a glowing ruby above the delicate meeting of her brows.
In the airplane I also left behind a half day of my life; who knows if eternity will return the loss.
Jumping into the best car I could find, I said to the Chinese man with the cheeks of a mummy:
“Take me to Main Street!”
As the car zoomed off to the main street, though no main street – of course – was to be found,
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Avrom Sutzkever, sock June 22, 1943, embankment the Vilna ghetto, asks himself that question:
“Am I the ransack poet compare singing take delivery of Europe?
Am I making freshen now pray corpses reprove crows?
I’m drowning in blazing, in ooze, in representation swamps,
Imprisoned stop yellow spotted hours style they close.
I bite mistrust my hours with depiction teeth closing stages a beast
By a mother’s tear strong. Through teardrops I see
The heart admire a cardinal rise send out from description bones
Of long-buried brothers security gallop abide me.
And I am consider it heart annotation a meg, one chosen
To guard interpretation songs they left hold on as rendering
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Sutzkever, Abraham
Nationality: Israeli (originally Russian: immigrated to Palestine, 1947). Born: Smorgon, Belorussia, 1913. Family: Married; one daughter. Career: Lived in Vilna, 1920-43. Member, literary and artistic group Young Vilna, 1930s; member, United Partisans Organization in the Vilna ghetto, early 1940s. Editor, Di Goldene Keyt (The Golden Chain), 1949-96. Awards: First prize, Vilna Ghetto Writers Union literary contest, 1942; B'nai B'rith literary award, 1979; Israel prize in literature.
Publications
Collections
Burnt Pearls: Ghetto Poems of Abraham Sutzkever. 1981.
A. Sutzkever: Selected Poetry and Prose. 1991.
Laughter beneath the Forest: Poems from Old and Recent Manuscripts. 1996.
Poetry
Lider [Poems]. 1937.
Valdiks [Woodlore]. 1940.
Di Festung [The Fortress]. 1945.
Lider fun geto [Poems of the Ghetto]. 1946.
Geheymshtot [Secret City]. 1948.
Yidishe gas. 1948.
In fayer-vogn. 1952.
Sibir. 1953; as Siberia: A Poem, 1961.
Fun drai weltn (De tres mundos). 1953.
Ode tsu der toyb. 1955.
In midber Sinai. 1957; as In the Sinai Desert, 1987.
Oazis. 1960.
Gaystike erd [Spiritual Soil]. 1961.
Five Yiddish Poets, with Naftoli Gross, Eliezer Greenberg, Riesel Zhichlinsky, and Jacob Glantz. 1962.
Poet