{"id":1897,"date":"2013-04-22T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T14:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjhblog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2013\/04\/22\/national-poetry-month-on-a-poem-by-leyb-kvitko-by\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T16:42:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T16:42:43","slug":"national-poetry-month-on-a-poem-by-leyb-kvitko-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2013\/04\/22\/national-poetry-month-on-a-poem-by-leyb-kvitko-by\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1897 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2013\/04\/22\/national-poetry-month-on-a-poem-by-leyb-kvitko-by\/attachment\/1898\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/tumblr_mlb18eBjsX1r3qmd1o2_r1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/tumblr_mlb18eBjsX1r3qmd1o2_r1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/tumblr_mlb18eBjsX1r3qmd1o2_r1_1280-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/tumblr_mlb18eBjsX1r3qmd1o2_r1_1280-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/tumblr_mlb18eBjsX1r3qmd1o2_r1_1280.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2013\/04\/22\/national-poetry-month-on-a-poem-by-leyb-kvitko-by\/attachment\/1899\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/tumblr_mlb18eBjsX1r3qmd1o1_r1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/tumblr_mlb18eBjsX1r3qmd1o1_r1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/tumblr_mlb18eBjsX1r3qmd1o1_r1_1280-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/tumblr_mlb18eBjsX1r3qmd1o1_r1_1280-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/tumblr_mlb18eBjsX1r3qmd1o1_r1_1280-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/tumblr_mlb18eBjsX1r3qmd1o1_r1_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><em><strong>National Poetry Month<\/strong><\/em><br \/><span><strong>On a Poem by Leyb Kvitko<\/strong><br \/><\/span><span>by J.D. Arden, M.L.I.S. candidate, <em>Reference Services Research Intern, Center for Jewish History<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Inscrutable Cat<br \/><\/span><span>by Leyb Kvitko (c.1890-1952),\u00a0<br \/><\/span><span>translated from Yiddish by A. Mandelbaum &amp; H. Rabinowitz<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This poem is taken from <em>The Penguin Book of Modern Yiddish Verse<\/em>, published in 1987, and is one of many such books available in the Lillian Goldman Reading Room at the Center for Jewish History.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Inscrutable cat!<\/strong><br \/><\/span><span><br \/>I am as still, as still as you,<br \/><\/span><span>Although you tread with shadow-steps &#8211;\u00a0<br \/><\/span><span>The peace of distant worlds within your gaze<br \/><\/span><span>So softly in the shadows of my rage&hellip;<br \/><\/span><span><br \/>I am as still, as still as you&hellip;<br \/><\/span><span>Along my meager island shore &#8211;\u00a0<br \/><\/span><span>The island of my memory &#8211; where ruins flicker faintly through<br \/><\/span><span>Awareness with its waves, its fog,<br \/><\/span><span>On that pathetic island<br \/><\/span><span>At times there creeps an ancient frog.<br \/><\/span><span>Lazily he looks about, lazily he croaks &#8211;\u00a0<br \/><\/span><span>At all that was, the old, the shriveled heretofore.<br \/><\/span><span>Then lazily he turns around; he croaks another croak &#8211;\u00a0<br \/><\/span><span>At the insane, the stolen here and now.<br \/><\/span><span>In me the present and the past are soon to speak no more.<br \/><\/span><span>Only the croaking will be etched into my island shore.<br \/><\/span><span>I start to sink into a shapeless torpor<br \/><\/span><span>And &#8211;\u00a0<br \/><\/span><span>I am as still, as still as you&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Poetry MonthOn a Poem by Leyb Kvitkoby J.D. Arden, M.L.I.S. candidate, Reference Services Research Intern, Center for Jewish History Inscrutable Catby Leyb Kvitko (c.1890-1952),\u00a0translated from Yiddish by A. Mandelbaum &amp; H. Rabinowitz This poem is taken from The Penguin Book of Modern Yiddish Verse, published in 1987, and is one of many such books available in the Lillian Goldman Reading Room at the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[964,965,8,47,963,305,962,447,398,961,50],"class_list":["post-1897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-a-mandelbaum","tag-h-rabinowitz","tag-history","tag-j-d-arden","tag-leyb-kvitko","tag-lillian-goldman-reading-room","tag-national-poetry-month","tag-poetry","tag-research-and-reference-services","tag-the-penguin-book-of-modern-yiddish-verse","tag-yiddish","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1900,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions\/1900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}