Glenda Abramson is Teacher of modern Hebrew literature at the University of Oxford; Schreiber Fellow in Modern Jewish Studies, Oxford Center for Hebrew Studies; and Senior Research Fellow, St. Cross College, Oxford University

Introduction
Poetry
1. Biography and Autobiography
"This is the Story of Dust" (Eileh toldot ha-avak)
"Since Then" (Me-az)
2. Allusion and Irony
"And This Is Your Praise" (Vehi tehillatekha)
"How Beautiful Are Thy Tents, O Jacob" (Mah tovu ohaleikha ya'akov)
"Young David" (David hatza'ir)
3. The Father and God
"A Second Meeting with My Father" (Pegishah sheniyah 'im avi)
4. Alienation and Fragmentation
"Poems of the Heat" - 6 (Shirei sharav - 6)
"I Write from Right to Left" (Ani kotev miyemin lesmol)
"The Place I've Never Been To" (Hamakom shelo hayiti bo)
5. The Love Poetry
"At Night Our Room Is Sealed" (Uvaleilot hadrenu ne-etam)
"Poems of Akhziv" - 10 (Shirei akhziv - 10)
"Again" (Od pa'am)
6. Jerusalem
"Jerusalem, 1967" (Yerushalayim 1967)
"Songs of Zion, Jerusalem" (Shirei eretz tziyon yerushalayim)
Fiction
7. Not of This Time, Not of This Place
(Lo me'akshav, lo mikan)
8. The Short Stories
In This Terrible Wind (Baruah hanora-ah hazot)
Drama
9. The Stage Plays
"No Man's Land" (Shetah shel hefker)
Journey to Nineveh (Masa' leninveh)
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index