Aharon Shabtai, trans. from the Hebrew by Peter Cole, New Directions, $15.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1890-0
A household name in Israel, Shabtai is the author of the PEN Translation Award–winning J'Accuse, 18 volumes of verse, and of numerous translations from Greek to Hebrew. One finds in this selection, spanning the period 1986–2008, a voice mostly...
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Aharon Shabtai, Author, Peter Cole, Translator ; trans. from the Hebrew by Peter Cole. New Directions $14.95 (80p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1539-8
In this provocative collection, Israeli poet Shabtai, author of more than 15 books of poetry, confronts what could be described as a collective identity crisis in Jewish culture, particularly in Israel. Having suffered immense persecution throughout
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Aharon Shabtai, Author, Peter Cole, Translator, Peter Cole, Introduction by Sheep Meadow Press $30 (248p) ISBN 978-1-878818-53-9
Consider the difficulties of translating poetry from Hebrew, a language read from right to left, its individual letters laden with symbolic and mathematical meanings of their own so that a single word can add up to an entire morality play. There is...
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