Within the Song to Live
Subtitle: Selected Poems
By: Natan Yonatan, translated by Janice Silverman Rebibo
Contributors: Janice Silverman Rebibo (Translator)
Publisher: Gefen Books
Published: March 2005
Place of publication: Jerusalem and New York
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9789652293459
Subjects: General; Middle Eastern; Poetry; Hebrew Poetry
First sentence: What is saddening is not that the land is changing/ that jagged quarry-wounds cut deep within,/ after all a little paint will cover up a multitude of sin/ but that we are running out of air/ and we won't soar up to the mountains.
Description: Commemorative hardcover, bilingual album of selected poems by Israel's beloved poet, Natan Yonatan, translated by Janice Rebibo, who worked with the poet on this collection, with contributions by Karen Alkalay-Gut, Richard Flantz and others.  Includes music CD of Yonatan's poems set to music by composer, Gidi (Gideon) Koren, and performed by The Brothers and the Sisters (Im Zer Kotzim) and Koren, himself, in Hebrew with two songs translated by Rebibo and newly performed and recorded in English by the band.
Notes: Accompanying disc (Hataklit : CD 9415) includes selections set to music by Gideon Koren and performed by The Brothers and the Sisters. Duration of accompanying sound disc: 45:04. Vocalized Hebrew and English on opposite side.