The Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai [Paperback]

Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) was Israel's most popular poet, as well as a literary figure of international reputation. In this collection, renowned translators Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell have selected Amichai's most beloved poems, including forty poems from his later work. A new foreword by C.K. Williams, written especially for this edition, addresses Amichais enduring legacy and sets his poetry in the context of the new millennium.

Yehuda Amichai(1924-2000) is widely considered the greatest contemporary Israeli poet, and a pioneering stylist in modern Hebrew.

C.K. Williamsis a poet, translator, and critic, and winner of the Pulizter Prize for Poetry forRepair(1999). His most recent collection isWriters Writing Dying(2012).

Chana Bloch'smany books includeThe Song of Songs: A New TranslationandThe Windows: New and Selected Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch.Stephen Mitchell'snumerous translations includeThe Book of Job,A Book of Psalms,andGenesis.

Yehuda Amichai's splendid poems, refined and cast in the desperate foundries of the Middle East, where life and faith are always at stake, exhibit a majestic and Biblical range of the topography of the soul. Anthony Hecht

"An ideal choice of the poet."