7 min listen
To live within the song of Natan Yonatan
ratings:
Length:
7 minutes
Released:
Dec 16, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
This week, host Marcela Sulak reads the poetry of Natan Yonatan alongside a soundtrack of songs dedicated to his poetry - each poem is accompanied by its musical version. Here is an extract from "Poems Only Go So Far":
"Poems only go so far. It’s time we conceded that,and break the bond of silence that we’ve shared.Our poppies never were any redder than theirs;our sins were never white as the drifting snow,and it seemed we’d always be so; weary birds that never stoppedbut always flew."
Natan Yonatan was born Natan Klein in Kiev in 1923, before his family immigrated to Mandate Palestine two years later. Much of Yonatan’s poetry, which won him the Bialik Prize, is inspired by the natural world, and also by the loss of his oldest son, Lior, who fell in the Yom Kippur War at the age of 21. Yonatan died after a brief illness in 2004, at the age of 80.
Text:Within the song to Live: Selected Poems by Natan Yonatan, translated by Janice Silverman Rebibo. Gefen Publishing 2005.
Music by Gidi Koren, performed by The Brothers and the Sisters:If This WorldAfter The StormPoems Only Go So FarBeyond The Pass
"Poems only go so far. It’s time we conceded that,and break the bond of silence that we’ve shared.Our poppies never were any redder than theirs;our sins were never white as the drifting snow,and it seemed we’d always be so; weary birds that never stoppedbut always flew."
Natan Yonatan was born Natan Klein in Kiev in 1923, before his family immigrated to Mandate Palestine two years later. Much of Yonatan’s poetry, which won him the Bialik Prize, is inspired by the natural world, and also by the loss of his oldest son, Lior, who fell in the Yom Kippur War at the age of 21. Yonatan died after a brief illness in 2004, at the age of 80.
Text:Within the song to Live: Selected Poems by Natan Yonatan, translated by Janice Silverman Rebibo. Gefen Publishing 2005.
Music by Gidi Koren, performed by The Brothers and the Sisters:If This WorldAfter The StormPoems Only Go So FarBeyond The Pass
Released:
Dec 16, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Know your roots: The Founder of Hebrew Spanish Poetry, Dunash ben Labrat, also made your ulpan studies possible. He was the first to distinguish between transitive and intransitive verbs in Hebrew, and to catalog verbs by the 3-letter roots. His smart, talented wife... by Israel in Translation