The selected poetry of Yehuda Amichai / / edited and translated from the Hebrew by Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell ; with a new foreword by C.K. Williams

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786046703321
• Autore: Amichai Yehuda
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• ISBN: 0-520-95444-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Collana: Literature of the Middle East
• Disciplina: 892.4/16
• Soggetti: POETRY / Middle Eastern
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.; Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword to the 2013 Edition -- Foreword 1996 -- PART ONE -- PART TWO -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index of Titles -- About
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 Amichai's enduring legacy and sets his poetry in the context of the new millennium.