The Stones Remember: Native Israeli Poetry

Trade paperback (US). xi, [1], 99, [1] p. Occasional footnotes. Biographical Notes. Index. From an on-line posting: "(Tel Aviv, 1932) read history and political science in his native town and in Jerusalem. Apart from some ten collections of poems he published children's books, essays and literary interviews. He also translates from English and for thirty years he was a member of the editorial staff of Maariv, a leading Israel daily. He is known as well from radio and television for his contributions on literature and his comments on other topics. In London he has been both cultural attaché and journalist, and in Washington's American University he was Writer-in-Residence. Moshe Dor was one of the founders and editors of Likrat, the forum of a new generation of authors which caused something of a revolution in poetry. His very first collection Broshim Levanim (White cypresses, 1954) spearheaded these young poets who favoured the application of a new, more spontaneous Hebrew. His sensual, brightly coloured style is reminiscent of the work of Abraham Shlonsky, one of the great Hebrew poets of the first half of this century. The flush of a new lifestyle, the recently acquired independence, the intoxication of the Israel landscapes with its bright colours, smells and sensual titillations all came together in Moshe Dor's poems and gave his nation's poetry a new incentive. His poetry has evolved over the years. The enthousiasm, the pathos and extreme figurativeness have gradually been replaced by a new elegic-lyrical-existential sound. The Israel me has opened up to the wide world around, has surrendered to another, romantic setting. Moshe Dor's initial attitude hasn't disappeared altogether, but it has been toned down and it has been enriched by the scepticism of a writer who gradually shifted from the Song of Songs to Ecclesiastes." From Wikipedia: "Giora Leshem (born Moshe Giora Rotstein; 3 February 1940 14 March 2011) was an award-winning Israeli poet and translator and one of the founders of the Keshev poetry publishing house. At the time of his death, Keshev was the largest independent book publisher in Israel. Leshem was born in Tel Aviv, British Mandate Palestine. He studied chemistry and biology at Bar-Ilan University, and then statistics and physics at Columbia University in New York. In addition, he studied computer operating systems at IBM. He taught at the Kfar Silver Youth Village and also at the Ort Educational Institute. He also participated in the development of medical software applications. He was a proofreader for the Davar newspaper and an editor and translator for the Al HaMishmar newspaper. Leshem has published five books of poetry (the latest of which, Behold, The Days Are Coming was published by Keshev in 2007) and two books connected with the subjects of literature and poetry. He has also translated many books of poetry, prose and analysis, including William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, which he translated twice, in 1968 for the Eked Publishing House and 30 years later for Keshev. In 1989, he edited the Rav Kol anthology, which was published with the assistance of the Israeli Authors Associations. In 1992, together with Moshe Dor and Barbara Goldberg, he was the editor of an anthology of Israeli poetry that was translated to English and published under the title, The Stones Remember, which won the Witter Bynner Foundation Award in the United States and was selected by Choice Magazine in Australia as an "Outstanding Academic Book" in 1993. In 1997, Leshem was one of the founders of the Keshev Poetry Publishing House, together with poets Raffi Weichart and Moshe Dor. The publishing house focuses on quality original and translated poetry. Leshem stopped his activities in the publishing house in 2008. In addition, Leshem was general secretary of the Hebrew Authors Association from 1986 to 1987 and won a variety of awards for his creations, among which are the Bernstein Prize (original Hebrew-language.…