Poems of Jerusalem and Love Poems (Sheep Meadow Poetry)
by Yehuda Amichai
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Yehuda Amichai was born in Germany in 1924. His family left for Israel in 1936. Among the collections of his poetry that have appeared in English are Songs of Jerusalem & Myself, Travels, & The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai. He presently lives & teaches in Jerusalem. "He is one of our great poets...once one has heard his quiet, even tones, precise, distanced & passionate, one never forgets them." "I, for one, return to his poetry again & again, & always find myself shaken, as by show more something truly genuine & alive." show lessTags
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This is one of my favorite books of all time. I have always liked Yehuda Amichai's poetry and this bilingual edition is absolutely perfect for those of us who want to be able to read it in the original as well. The translation is excellent. Amichai's work manages to combine tenderness with Israeli wit and cynicism, and especially moving are the words about his father. Highly recommended.
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Yehuda Amichai was born in Germany and immigrated to Palestine in 1936. His novels and poetry are innovative in their use of Hebrew terms. Following World War II and Israel's War of Independence in 1948, Amichai began to introduce new words of technical, legal, and administrative meaning into his poetry to replace sacral phrases. Amichai's poetry show more reflects the modernizing of the Hebrew language within the last 45 years. "One of Amichai's most characteristic effects in his poetry is the mingling of past and present, ancient and modern, person and place: the here and now for him inevitably recalls the past" (Judaica Book News). One of Israel's most highly regarded poets, Amichai shared the Israel Prize for Literature with Amir Gilboa in 1981. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Poetry, Fiction and Literature
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- 892.416 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature Afro-Asiatic literatures Jewish, Israeli, and Hebrew Hebrew poetry 1947–2000
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- PJ5054 .A65 .A2 — Language and Literature Oriental languages and literatures Oriental philology and literature Hebrew Literature Individual authors and works
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