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The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai

The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai( )
Author: Amichai, Yehuda
Translator: Bloch, Chana
Mitchell, Stephen
Series title:Literature of the Middle East Ser.
ISBN:978-0-520-20538-3
Publication Date:Oct 1996
Publisher:University of California Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $24.95
Book Description:

Yehuda Amichai is Israel's most popular poet as well as a literary figure of international reputation. In this revised and expanded collection, renowned translators Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell have selected Amichai's most beloved and enduring poems, including forty new poems from his recent work. from Tourists:Once I was sitting on the steps near the gate at David's Citadel and I put down my two heavy baskets beside me. A group of tourists stood there...
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Book Details
Pages:192
Detailed Subjects: Poetry / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6 x 9 x 0.75 Inches
Book Weight:0.12 Pounds
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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