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Oh, Ghingeli, my bleeding heart,
Who is this guy who dreams in snow
And drags his feet like a pair of logs
In the middle of the street at night?
It is the rascal Moyshe-Leyb,
Who will freeze to…
Contributor:
Moyshe-Leyb Halpern
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1919
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My restlessness is of a wolf, and of a bear my rest,
Riot shouts in me, and boredom listens.
I am not what I want, I am not what I think,
I am the magician and I’m the magic-trick.
I am an ancient…
Contributor:
Moyshe-Leyb Halpern
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1919
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Cigarettes! Cigarettes!
My voice rings through the streets
With eyes overcast, cloudy—
Buy! Buy! Buy!
Hunting foxes—Cossacks ride—
With horseshoes like scythes—
And cut down sounds like sheaves:
Buy…
Contributor:
Malka Lee
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1925–1926
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No one can order his face in advance
And you shouldn’t throw a stone at a dog
Showing its howling muzzle to the night sky.
But when I think about it,
Losing myself in sadness, in this night-cafe
Fogg…
Contributor:
Moyshe-Leyb Halpern
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1927
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The avenue of willows leads nowhere:
it begins at the blank wall of a new apartment house
and ends in the middle of a lot for sale.
Papers and cans are thrown about the trees.
The disorder does not…
Contributor:
Charles Reznikoff
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1927
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Into its own gold, the evening melted.
Bullet laughed midair across to bullet.
Colossal city fought with city, giants—
The sky disintegrated in red fragments.
Hatless, soldiers fly across the…
Contributor:
Malka Lee
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1928
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I am Mani Leyb, whose name is sung—
In Brownsville, Yehupets, and farther, they know it:
Among cobblers, a splendid cobbler; among
Poetical circles, a splendid poet.
A boy straining over the…
Contributor:
Mani Leib
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1932
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A Young Jew. The weed of their hatred which has grown so tall
now turns towards us many heads,
many pointed petals and leaves;
what did they whisper to each other before the ikons,
and smile at over…
Contributor:
Charles Reznikoff
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1934
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Over and over, yes, over and over,
I shook the pinions of my anger,
Again and again you broke faith with me,
And I stormed at your crop of iniquity.
But over and over, and over and over,
Your songs…
Contributor:
Kurt Wolfskehl
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1934
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I am a circus lady
And dance among the daggers
Set in the arena
With their points erect.
My swaying, lissome body
Avoids a death-by-falling,
Touching, barely touching the dagger blades.
Holding…
Contributor:
Celia Dropkin
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1935