After the first rain : Israeli poems on war and peace / edited by Moshe Dor and Barbara Goldberg ; foreword by Shimon Peres.

Foreword / Shimon Peres -- It Will Be a Monotonous Poem -- Palestinian / Eli Alon -- Arriving at the Island -- Houses That Were Mine / Alon Altaras -- Seven Laments for the War-Dead -- Wildpeace / Yehuda Amichai -- Looking Toward Jerusalem -- She Was in Jerusalem / Na'im Araidi -- Drought -- Eucalyptus / Dan Armon -- Army Service at Ma'aleh Ya'ir -- You Have to Abandon Jerusalem / Shlomo Avayou -- If Only People Could See Us -- Taste of Salt and Reckoning / Peretz-Dror Banai -- An Old Poem and Twelve Thoughts About a Dove -- Negotiation / Chamutal Bar-Yosef -- Peace / Ella Bat-Tzion -- Data Processing 34 -- Cedar Trees Hotel, Metula / Maya Bejerano -- War and the Dog Who Committed Suicide / Yigal Ben-Aryeh -- Soldier -- Light Poem of Mud and Culture / Moshe Ben-Shaul -- Furlough / Reuven Ben-Yosef -- Ruins -- Snakeskin / Yaakov Besser -- Order of the Day -- Military Funeral at High Noon / T. Carmi -- Tel Aviv Beach, Winter '74 / Rachel Chalfi.

Translated from Hebrew.