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The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai

The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai( )
Author: Amichai, Yehuda
ISBN:978-1-283-99389-0
Publication Date:Jan 2013
Publisher:University of California Press
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $24.95
Book Description:

Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) was Israel's most popular poet, as well as a literary figure of international reputation. In this collection, renowned translators Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell have selected Amichai's most beloved poems, including forty poems from his later work. A new foreword by C.K. Williams, written especially for this edition, addresses Amichai s enduring legacy and sets his poetry in the context of the new millennium."

Book Details
Pages:218
Detailed Subjects: Poetry / General
Author Biography
Amichai, Yehuda (Author)
Yehuda Amichai was born in Germany and immigrated to Palestine in 1936. His novels and poetry are innovative in their use of Hebrew terms. Following World War II and Israel's War of Independence in 1948, Amichai began to introduce new words of technical, legal, and administrative meaning into his poetry to replace sacral phrases.

Amichai's poetry reflects the modernizing of the Hebrew language within the last 45 years. "One of Amichai's most characteristic effects in his poetry is the mingling of past and present, ancient and modern, person and place: the here and now for him inevitably recalls the past" (Judaica Book News).

One of Israel's most highly regarded poets, Amichai shared the Israel Prize for Literature with Amir Gilboa in 1981.

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