Travels
$28.95
One of the great love poets of modern times, his work one almost always encounters a delight in figurative language; yet his poems are never pretentious or tedious, since they speak out of the everyday and towards concerns we encounter every day. His great themes are love and loss: he celebrates life with vibrancy and energy and a relish for feeling, yet at the same time he is intensely aware of what is lost as history, both personal and social, shears away from each individual things he or she holds dear.
Translated from Hebrew by Ruth Nevo.
Poetry 1986 • 5.5 x 9 inches • 137 pages • Bilingual Hebrew/English • 9780920428412
Very Rare – less than 10 copies available
Yehuda Amichai of Israel is one of the most important poets of our time. Travels is his major extended work, the story of a pilgrim moving through a past that inhabits his present-day Jerusalem. Amichai’s poetry is about love, family and war. It is centred in his own being and in his people’s history. Amichai’s language is both modern and ancient, secular and religious, practical and mystic. Joy in the midst of melancholy is a recurring them. Amichai is one of the truly authentic and powerful voices of our era.” —Ted Hughes
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