The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai
Paperback
04 April 2017Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Synopsis
The largest English-language collection to date from Israel’s finest poet
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...
Details
04 April 2017576 pages
9780374536589Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Reviews
"I've become more than ever convinced that Amichai is one of the biggest, most essential, most durable poetic voices of this past century--one of the most intimate, alive and human, wise, humorous, true, loving, inwardly free and resourceful, at home in every human situation. One of the real treasures." --Ted Hughes on Yehuda Amichai
