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The poetry of Yehuda Amichai / edited by Robert Alter.

by Amichai, Yehuda.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.

Amichai, Yehuda -- Translations into English.

Hebrew poetry, Modern -- 20th century.

Israeli poetry -- 20th century.

Poets, Israeli -- 20th century.

Israel -- Poetry.

9780374235253 (hc.)

0374235252 (hc.)

xxiv, 551 pages ; 24 cm.

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.

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 the fate of 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 Hebrew scholar and translator Robert Alter, this is 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. Yehuda Amichai (1924 - 2000) was an Israeli poet. Amichai is considered by many, both in Israel and internationally, as Israel's greatest modern poet. He was also one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew. He was born in Würzburg, Germany, Amichai immigrated with his family at the age of 11 to Petah Tikva in Mandate Palestine in 1935, moving to Jerusalem in 1936. He published his first book of poetry, Now and in Other Days, in 1955.

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