Yehuda Amichai, Author Harper Perennial $15.95 (135p) ISBN 978-0-06-096288-3
In this anthology by the Israeli poet, Jerusalem dominates as Amichai delights in contrasting the city's religious imagery with the mundane concerns of daily life therein. An erotic subtext is often present: in ``A Tourist,'' the poet chats up a...
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Yehuda Amichai, Author HarperCollins Publishers $30 (477p) ISBN 978-0-06-019039-2
When Israeli poet Amichai (Poems of Jerusalem) began writing poems as a young man in 1948 in his newly forged country, ``the twentieth century was the blood in my veins,/ Blood that wanted to go to many wars.'' Crafted of blood and war, his early...
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Yehuda Amichai, Author, Stephen Mitchell, Translator, Chana Bloch, Translator HarperCollins Publishers $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-055001-1
Pieces of laundry hanging from Jerusalem's rooftops serve as signposts distinguishing Arabs from Jews; Amichai's brief lyric crystallizing their mutual hatred would heal the rift, if words could. Israel's best-known poet sifts centuries of Jewish...
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Yehuda Amichai, edited by Robert Alter. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $35 (576p) ISBN 978-0-374-23525-3
Over his long career, Amichai (1924–2000) became the best-known poet of modern Israel and was admired in translation around the world. This mammoth and ably assembled selection combines existing English versions (by Chana Bloch, Stephen Mitchell,...
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Yehuda Amichai, Author, Assia Gutmann, Translator, Harold Schimmel, Translator Sheep Meadow Press $14.95 (148p) ISBN 978-0-935296-75-4
This English translation of the popular Israeli poet's early work serves as a fine introduction to his oeuvre. Amichai's first volumes, published in the 1950s, influenced a generation of poetsparticularly in the contrasts that he created between the
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Yehuda Amichai, Author, Barbara Harshav, Translator, Benjamin Harshav, Translator Harper Perennial $21.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-06-055297-8
In this reflective yet urgent collection, Amichai ( Love Poems ) further secures his place as one of Israel's most powerful voices and as one of the world's major poets. Characteristically concise and straightforward, the poet fuses colloquial...
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Yehuda Amichai, Author, Amichai, Author, Drenka Willen, Editor Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $28 (192p) ISBN 978-0-15-100378-5
Constructing a lineage in which to place himself, Amichai begins these verses of personal and cultural history with a stone from a destroyed Jewish graveyard; and moves on to enact the story of David, recall poems by Ibn Ezra, and even consider...
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Yehuda Amichai, Author, Ruth Nevo, Translator, Ruth Nevo, Photographer Sheep Meadow Press $18.95 (141p) ISBN 978-0-935296-62-4
Amichai's ability to write fluently and simply on many levels seems so natural, one can't imagine him ever having to blot a line. This book-length autobiographical poem is not an ongoing narrative but a series of linked meditations on the...
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