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The poetry of Yehuda Amichai / edited by Robert Alter.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Hebrew Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: First edtionDescription: xxiv, 551 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780374235253
  • 0374235252
Uniform titles:
  • Poems. Selections. English
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction / Robert Alter -- Now And In Other Days (1955) -- Two Hopes Away (1958) -- Poems, 1948-1962 (1963) -- Now In The Uproar: Poems, 1963-1968 (1968) -- Not For The Sake Of Remembering (1971) -- Behind All This A Great Happiness is Hiding (1976) -- Time (1978) -- A Great Tranquillity: Questions And Answers (1980) -- The Hour Of Grace (1983) -- From Man You Are And To Man You Shall Return (1985) -- The Fist, Too, Was Once An Open Hand And Fingers (1989) -- Open Closed Open (1998) -- Notes -- About the Translators -- Index of Titles and First Lines
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 892.416 A516 Available 33111008349728
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The largest English-language collection to date from Israel's finest poet

Few poets have demonstrated as persuasively as Yehuda Amichai why poetry matters. One of the major poets of the twentieth century, Amichai created remarkably accessible poems, vivid in their evocation of the Israeli landscape and historical predicament, yet universally resonant. His are some of the most moving love poems written in any language in the past two generations--some exuberant, some powerfully erotic, many suffused with sadness over separation that casts its shadow on love. In a country torn by armed conflict, these poems poignantly assert the preciousness of private experience, cherished under the repeated threats of violence and death.

Amichai's poetry has attracted a variety of gifted English translators on both sides of the Atlantic from the 1960s to the present. Assembled by the award-winning Hebrew scholar and translator Robert Alter, The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai is by far the largest selection of the master poet's work to appear in English, gathering the best of the existing translations as well as offering English versions of many previously untranslated poems. With this collection, Amichai's vital poetic voice is now available to English readers as it never has been before.

Translated from the Hebrew.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Robert Alter -- Now And In Other Days (1955) -- Two Hopes Away (1958) -- Poems, 1948-1962 (1963) -- Now In The Uproar: Poems, 1963-1968 (1968) -- Not For The Sake Of Remembering (1971) -- Behind All This A Great Happiness is Hiding (1976) -- Time (1978) -- A Great Tranquillity: Questions And Answers (1980) -- The Hour Of Grace (1983) -- From Man You Are And To Man You Shall Return (1985) -- The Fist, Too, Was Once An Open Hand And Fingers (1989) -- Open Closed Open (1998) -- Notes -- About the Translators -- Index of Titles and First Lines

Translated from the Hebrew.

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