Yehuda Amichai, a Life of Poetry, 1948-1994 - Softcover

Amichai, Yehuda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 006092666X ISBN 13: 9780060926663

Publisher: PerfectBound, 1995

Synopsis

A full-scale, comprehensive collection of the work of Yehuda Amichai, Israel's most esteemed poet and "one of the half-dozen leading poets in the world."-- "The Nation"

"Yehuda Amichai: A Life of Poetry 1948-1994" offers a comprehensive and timely evaluation of the body of work of one of our most valuable poets in any language. Employing the style and idiom of a post-Modernism--of a twentieth-century artist--and filtering it through the prism of his Israeli and Jewish sensibilities, Amichai's words ifs cosmopolitan, muscular, and ironic. Resounding with the exhilarating of the human encounters--it is brought into the sharper contrast by the ever-present precariousness of Israeli existence. The burden and legacy of this history, and its impact upon modern, secular society, places Amichai's work within a uniquely Israeli landscape--arid, verdant, cruel, and beautiful--while simultaneously transcending national and religious borders. Translated from the Hebrew by Benjamin and Barbara Harshav, this volume brings Amichai to his rightful place beside the leading poets of the twentieth century.

"Amichai is one of those alarming poets who time and again seems to be making sense of our own poorly perceives responses to life."
-- "Jerusalem Post"

"Mr. Amichai demonstrated that he is a representative man with the unusual gifts who is telling his own story also relates the large story of his people."
-- "New York Time Book Review" "Amichai demonstrates that he is a representative man with unusual gifts who in telling his own story also relates the large story of his people." "--New York Times Book Review"

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Review:

"Amichai demonstrates that he is a representative man with unusual gifts who in telling his own story also relates the large story of his people.""-- New York Times Book Review""A full-scale, comprehensive collection of the work of Yehuda Amichai, Israel's most esteemed poet and "one of the half-dozen leading poets in the world."-- "The Nation""Amichai is one of those alarming poets who time and again seems to be making sense of our own poorly perceives responses to life." -- "Jerusalem Post"

Synopsis:

This book is translated by Benjamin and Barbara Harshav. Yehuda Amichai is acknowledged as Israel's Poet Laureate.

About this edition

• Publisher: PerfectBound
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 006092666X
• ISBN 13: 9780060926663
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496