Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai "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 group of tourists stood there around their guide, and I became their point of reference.Yehuda Amichai is Israel's mo
| TITLE | : | Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai |
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| RATING | : | 4.92 (978 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 0060550015 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Hardcover |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 0 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 0000-00-00 |
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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
EDITORIAL :
From Publishers Weekly
Pieces of laundry hanging from Jerusalem's rooftops serve as signposts distinguishing Arabs from Jews; Amichai's brief lyric crystallizing their mutual hatred would heal the rift, if words could. Israel's best-known poet sifts centuries of Jewish experience in firsthand impressions of his troubled land; moreover, he makes the particular universal. In their remarkable translations, Bloch and Mitchell bring over the poet's healing, wise voice in a modern American idiom that nevertheless remains true to his biblical and cultural roots. Amichai circumscribes the world in a few lines; pain, joy, sorrow, hope press against the reader with the felt weight of experience. Love poems are shot through with an ironic awareness that love is no panacea. In their richness of history, their ever-present political dimension, their sharing of a common frame of reference with th
REVIEW :
Halmos has taken a field, wrapped his deep understanding around it, and brought the field forth into light in a way that it is accessible to any reader willing to invest the requisite effort, regardless of mathematical background.
Each word is carefully chosen; Halmos has a knack for qualifying his statements gently and subtly so that on a first reading, the qualifications and limitations placed on the main results don't slow one down. I have traveled extensively throughout Europe, from Spain in the west to Hungary and Croatia in the east and everything in between, and I have always been struck by how well everything works in Europe, and how much support families and individuals recieve, increasingly important in this age of globalized capitalism that is breeding economic inequality around the world. My son seemed so distracted looking at the illustrations, and there I was reading a
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