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| "It's here, Peter Cole’s translation of Hayim Nahman Bialik’s famous and infamous poetry about the April 1903 Kishinev pogrom along with a compact selection of the poet's other visionary, strange, passionate, and mournful works, which are just as striking and durable in altogether different ways. These translations bring us a living voice, nuanced, melodic, orchestrated with touches of rhyme that seem inevitable, less the product of a translator’s will than of the desire of language itself.” —Forrest Gander Hayim Nahman Bialik
Selected and translated from the Hebrew by Peter ColeFew poets in the history of Hebrew have possessed the power and prescience of Hayim Nahman Bialik. His body of work opened a path from the traditional Jewish world of Eastern Europe into a more expansive Jewish humanism. In a line that stretches back to the Bible and the Hebrew poetry of Muslim and Christian Spain, he stands out—in the words of Maxim Gorky—as “a modern Isaiah.” He remains to this day an iconic and shockingly relevant poet, essayist, and tutelary spirit.Translated and introduced by MacArthur-winning poet Peter Cole, On the Slaughter presents Bialik for the first time in English as a masterful artist, someone far more politically and psychologically unsettling than his reputation as the national poet of the Jewish people might suggest. This compact collection offers readers a panoramic view of Bialik’s inner and outer landscapes—from his visionary “poems of wrath” that respond in startling fashion to the devastations of pogroms and revolutionary unrest to quietly sublime lyrics of longing and withering self-assessment. The volume also includes a sampling of slyly sophisticated verse for children, and a moving introduction that bridges Bialik’s moment and our own.“Peter Cole—a major poet himself—has mastered the consummate master of contemporary Hebrew letters, rendering him into English, after so many others have tried, with unrivaled clarity, erudition, and multilingual precision. Here is Bialik taking his rightful place in the larger poetic world.”
—Steven J. Zipperstein For three days only, On the Slaughter is available at 25% off. Events for On the Slaughter with Peter ColeAlan Cheuse Writing Center’s Let’s Talk: International Writers Festival 2025
Monday, September 29th, 6pm
Busboys and Poets 14th & V
2021 14th Street NW, Washington, DC
RSVP here
Tuesday, September 30th, 12pm–7pm
George Mason University
Gillespie Gallery, Art and Design Building 1st Floor
4515 Patriot Circle, Fairfax, VA
Peter Cole will speak at 4:30pm
RSVP here
Other events
Wednesday, October 22nd, 5pm
Yale University
Bingham Hall Library, 8th Floor
300 College Street, New Haven, CT
with Robyn Creswell and Eliyahu Stern
Learn more hereMonday, November 10th, 7pm
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
15 West 16th Street, New York City
with Philip Roth biographer Steven J. Zipperstein
Register here Read a poem from On the SlaughterOver Your Heart
The threshold edicts of your hearts are broken
and sullied, and so the demons prance—
and a chorus of clowns, disciples of folly,
within great storm clouds rave.
Can you see who’s waiting there by the door
with a broom? The keeper of the ravaged shrines.
Despair—is coming, and the jubilant pack
will be expelled, swept out: “Move on.”
The last glimmer of your fires will sputter,
your shrines go quiet, the crowds forgotten.
And over your hearts’ barren altar,
desolation’s cat will howl and yawn. |
Setmana del Llibre en Català 2025 📚 | | | | | La Setmana del Llibre en Català 2025 | | | | Del 19 al 28 de setembre serem, un any més, a la Setmana del Llibre en Català.
Ens trobareu, amb les nostres novetats més recents i gairebé tot el catàleg, en el mòdul 29 del passeig de Lluís Companys.
Us hi esperem! | | | Novetat de la Setmana del Llibre en Català | | |  | Estem avesats que els historiadors a sou de totes les èpoques —i bona part de la premsa actual— cantin les lloances dels governants i exposin les obres de govern i les gestes més destacades dels qui els paguen, i prou que Procopi ho va fer com a historiador que era de l'imperi bizantí. Però és una autèntica raresa, encara més en el segle VI, que el mateix autor que havia redactat la història «oficial» tingués la valentia d'escriure aquest llibre, en el qual diu les coses pel seu nom: els foscos orígens i el tarannà pervers de Justinià, l'adolescència prostibulària de Teodora, l'espoli dels súbdits com a pa de cada dia i molts altres estralls demostren d'allò més bé que la realitat, ahir i avui, no és com ens volen fer creure.
Procopi, nascut a Cesarea de Palestina cap a l'any 500 de la nostra era, va ser secretari i conseller del general Belisari —una de les figures principals del regnat de Justinià i Teodora—, i és considerat el millor historiador de l'imperi bizantí. Home erudit i bon coneixedor dels autors clàssics, va escriure dues obres, les Guerres i els Edificis, que relaten detalladament un dels períodes més convulsos i alhora més interessants de l'antiguitat tardana, però és conegut sobretot per l'escandalosa Història secreta, que, redescoberta gairebé mil anys després de la seva redacció i esdevinguda una obra llegendària per a historiadors i filòlegs, ara presentem per primera vegada en català. | | | | | | | | |
