Research Catalog

Title

The selected poetry of Yehuda Amichai / edited and translated from the Hebrew by Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell.

Author

Amichai, Yehuda

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bloch, Chana, 1940-2017
• Mitchell, Stephen, 1943-
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

xiv, 195 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

A collection of poems by Israeli writer Yehuda Amichai that blend tenderness and irony with religion and love.

Series Statement

Literature of the Middle East

Uniform Title

• Poems. Selections. English
• Literature of the Middle East

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• Amichai, Yehuda > Translations into English
• Hebrew poetry, Modern > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Translations

Note

• Previously published: New York : HarperCollins, 1992.
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-190) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

From Now and in other days (1955) -- From Two hopes away (1958) -- From Poems, 1948-1962 -- From Now in the storm, poems 1963-1968 -- From Not for the sake of remembering (1971) -- From Behind all this a great happiness is hiding (1976) -- From Time (1978) -- From A great tranquility: questions and answers (1980) -- From The hour of grace (1983) -- From From man thou art and unto man thou shalt return (1985) -- From The fist, too, was once the palm of an open hand and fingers (1989)

ISBN

0520205383 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^96018580^

OCLC

• 34690693
• SCSB-11796055

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library