The Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai, Newly Revised and Expanded edition (Literature of the Middle East) - Softcover

Amichai, Yehuda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520205383 ISBN 13: 9780520205383

Publisher: University of California Press, 1996

Synopsis

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 around their guide, and I became their point of reference. "You see that man over there with the baskets? A little to the right of his head there's an arch from the Roman period. A little to the right of his head." "But he's moving, he's moving!" I said to myself: Redemption will come only when they are told, "Do you see that arch over there from the Roman period? It doesn't matter, but near it, a little to the left and then down a bit, there's a man who has just bought fruit and vegetables for his family."

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"Yehuda Amichai's splendid poems, refined and cast in the desperate foundries of the Middle East, where life and faith are always at stake, exhibit a majestic and Biblical range of the topography of the soul." (Anthony Hecht)

About the Author:

Chana Bloch's many books include, most recently, The Song of Songs: A New Translation and The Windows: New and Selected Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch. She lives in Berkeley, California. Stephen Mitchell's numerous translations include The Book of Job, A Book of Psalms, and Genesis. He lives in Sonoma, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0520205383
• ISBN 13: 9780520205383
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192