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Orlando Furioso: A New Verse Translation by Ludovico Ariosto translated by David R. Slavitt Belknap, 688 pages, $39.95 n Profane, urbane, jocose and headlong, Ariosto’s poem Orlando Furioso is...

I think that I am suffering From post-neurotic stress disorder A random thought? an ordered world? or either other?Seated at the table with Oedipus and Isaac, The conversation turned...

The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Vol. 1 translated by Daniel C. Matt Stanford University Press, 584 pages, $49.95. DANIEL MATT’S LANDMARK translation of the Zohar from the original tongues into...

Listen, God, I need You, hear me. Cheer me In this darkness. Give me back (My soul is ready Now to leave me) Any answer. I don’t question You...

What the God of Jacob said through Joseph, we sing In a psalm, accompanied by tambourine and shepherd’s harp. New moon, full moon, blow the horn of Israel Again....

Those with heaps of money, made Or born to it, though they play With bankers, senators, with generals, Like gods to mortals, while they Stroll in knots through crowded...

Listen, reader of the dreams Interpreted by Joseph, who led Israel into Egypt, brought them Up again: return us to ourselves. However long it takes to mill, To knead...

God once smiled on Israel, Returned them from captivity, Forgotten and forgiven. Now think of us, let us remember More than anger, more than children Heaped before their fathers....

My fingers twang the bowstring. Arrows flying from the tower Land whole armies at my feet. What is one human, That God should know or care about him or...

But the Lord rebuilds Jerusalem, Collects the scattered, castoff, brokenhearted Seed of Israel and knows how many Stars there are, and calls them all By name, and hears the...

I can’t cry innocent in any court: Dogged by enemies, I ran, was caught. Pitched in a hole, my soul turned waste, Heart hollow rock not even wind might...

The Husbands: An Account of Books 3 and 4 of Homer’s Illiad By Christopher Logue Farrar, Sraus & Giroux, 56 pages, $19 The Husbands is the latest installment of...

Mitch said: “I’m trying hard to live To seventy.” I think about it constantly: How half A century is an abyss not all Can cross- “This field, once, was...

I’m here because I hatedHeedless worshipers of words but trustA truth. I’ve known the eagle’s and the worm’sEye view, and am quite happy with one roomThat’s not a cell,...