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archipelago An International Journal of Literature, the Arts, and Opinion www.archipelago.org Vol. 8, No. 4 Winter 2005 Poems Samuel Menashe: Eyes Open To Praise Witness to War Joel Agee: , by Hans Erich Nossack THE END Horst Lange: War Diaries tr. from the German by Isabel Fargo Cole Adventure Theo Dorgan: Sailing for Home Photographs George C. Thomas: Margaree People Fiction Abdón Ubídia: The Gillette tr. from the Spanish by Nathan Horowitz Photo/Art Alex Forman: Tall, Slim & Erect Portraits of American Presidents Human Rights Ellen Boneparth: An Uncivil Action Personal History Leon Bell: An American Boy’s Life in the Soviet Union Space Brian McNamara, et al.: The Largest Outburst in the Universe Endnotes Katherine McNamara: In the Fortified City Printed from our PDF archipelago An International Journal of Literature, the Arts, and Opinion www.archipelago.org Vol. 8, No. 4 Winter 2005� Samuel Menashe: Eyes Open To Praise 4 Joel Agee: THE END, by Hans Erich Nossack 11 Horst Lange: War Diaries 19 Theo Dorgan: Sailing for Home 39 George C. Thomas: Margaree People 50 Abdón Ubídia: The Gillette 60 Alex Forman: Slim Tall & Erect 71 Ellen Boneparth: An Uncivil Action 83 Leon Bell: An American Boy’s Life in the Soviet Union 96 Brian McNamara, et al.: The Greatest Outburst in the Universe 120 Katherine McNamara: In the Fortified City 122 masthead 3 contributors 136 Masthead Editor and Publisher Katherine McNamara Production design and formatting [email protected] Debra Weiss [email protected] Contributing Editor Sound Editor K. Callaway [email protected] Sean Tubbs [email protected] John Casey [email protected] Editorial Staff Benjamin Cheever [email protected] Nell Boeschenstein Edith Grossman Odile Hellier [email protected] Katharine Meyer [email protected] Arthur Molella [email protected]> Letters to the Editor are welcomed, by post All submissions on paper must be typed and double- or via the Internet. spaced and sent by post with SASE or SAE and ARCHIPELAGO International Reply Coupon. An e-mail address is Box 2485 appreciated. No electronic submissions will be Charlottesville, Va. 22902-2485 USA considered unless Editor is queried beforehand and E-mail: [email protected] instructions in reply are followed. We encourage Readers to download and distribute this journal in our Download edition, a pdf file, which can be saved and read off-line and printed. Instructions for use - including access to the freeware Adobe Reader - appear on the Download page of the on-line edition. All previous issues are available in the Download/pdf editions. All individual articles are available on-line at Archive. The authors published herein retain copyright and the right to be acknowledged as the moral authors of their work. No original part of this issue may appear in another publication, either electronic or in print, except identified as part of Archipelago and with permission from Archipelago. ©1996-2005 Archipelago. ARCHIPELAGO 3 Volume 8, Number 4 Winter 2005 EYES OPEN TO PRAISE Poems Samuel Menashe Adam Means Earth I am the man � Whose name is mud � But what’s in a name � To shame the one who knows � Mud does not stain � Clay he’s made of � Dust Adam became— � The dust he was— � Was he his name � Adam: from Adamah, ‘earth’ in Hebrew Reeds Rise From Water rippling under my eyes � Bulrushes tuft the shore � At every instance I expect � what is hidden everywhere � ARCHIPELAGO 4 Volume 8, Number 4 Winter 2005 SAMUEL MENASHE Eyes Open To Praise Manna for David Curzon Open your mouth To feed that flesh Your teeth have bled Tongue us out Bone by bone Do not allow Man to be fed By bread alone ‘And he afflicted the and suffered thee to hunger and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not neither did thy fathers know, that He might make thee know that man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord does man life.’ –Deuteronomy VIII:3 Paschal Wilderness Blue funnels the sun Each unhewn stone Every derelict stem Engenders Jerusalem ARCHIPELAGO 5 Volume 8, Number 4 Winter 2005 SAMUEL MENASHE Eyes Open To Praise Stone Would Be Water Stone would be water But it cannot undo Its own hardness Rocks might run Wild as torrents Plunged upon the sky By cliffs none climb Who makes fountains Spring from flint Who dares tell One thirsting There’s a well ARCHIPELAGO 6 Volume 8, Number 4 Winter 2005 SAMUEL MENASHE Eyes Open To Praise The Shrine Whose Shape I Am The shrine whose shape I am Has a fringe of fire Flames skirt my skin There is no Jerusalem but this Breathed in flesh by shameless love Built high upon the tides of blood I believe the Prophets and Blake And like David I bless myself With all my might I know many hills were holy once But now in the level lands to live Zion ground down must become marrow Thus in my bones I am the King’s son And through death’s domain I go Making my own procession ARCHIPELAGO 7 Volume 8, Number 4 Winter 2005 SAMUEL MENASHE Eyes Open To Praise Incense Man As the tall, turbaned Black, incense man Passed the house I called after him And ran out to the street Where at once we smiled Seeing one another And without a word Like a sword that leaps from its lustrous sheath He was swinging his lamp with abundant grace To my head and to my heart and to my feet . . . Self-imparted we swayed Possessed by that One Only the living praise ‘The dead do not praise Thee.’ –Psalm of David Old As The Hills The lilt of a slope � Under the city � Flow of the land � With streets in tow � Where houses stand � Row upon row � ARCHIPELAGO 8 Volume 8, Number 4 Winter 2005 SAMUEL MENASHE Eyes Open To Praise The Annunciation She bows her head Submissive, yet Her downcast glance Asks the angel, “Why, For this romance, Do I qualify?” Hallelujah Eyes open to praise The play of light Upon the ceiling— While still abed raise The roof this morning Rejoice as you please Your Maker who made This day while you slept, Who gives grace and ease, Whose promise is kept. ‘Let them sing for joy upon their beds.’ –Psalm 149 ARCHIPELAGO 9 Volume 8, Number 4 Winter 2005 SAMUEL MENASHE Eyes Open To Praise Promised Land At the edge Of a World Beyond my eyes Beautiful I know Exile Is always Green with hope— The river We cannot cross Flows forever © Samuel Menashe From THE NICHE NARROWS, by Samuel Menashe Talisman House, Publishers, 2000 with permission of the author Samuel Menashe, Six Poems, Archipelago, Vol. 5, No. 2 http://www.archipelago.org/vol5-2/menashe.htm OTTO LUENING: No Jerusalem But This http://dram.nyu.edu/dram/note.cgi?id=8536 (Peters; recording CRI) The text of the cantata comes from two collections of Samuel Menashe's work, The Many Named Beloved (1961) and No Jerusalem But This. 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