Selected Poems of Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Winner of the 2001 T.L.S-Porjes Prize for Translation, Jewish Book Council Peter Cole, Winner of a 2010 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters "Taut, light-footed translations ... remarkable in the degree to which they carry over the distinct poetic complexities of the original while retaining a crisp, contemporary sense of American poetics ... the quality of motion and emotion comes through directly."--Publisher's Weekly "Cole?s translations of Ibn Gabirol?s poetry shimmer: they convey the power and mystique of the original in warm and wonderful phrases. Immediately accessible to the reader seeking beautiful locutions about love, longing, and desire... Cole?s introduction is a gem, delineating what little is known about Ibn Gabirol the man and describing his world, his work, and his thought in ways that will delight."--Choice "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