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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Amichai, Yehuda, author.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Bloch, Chana, 1940-2017, editor, translator.

Mitchell, Stephen, 1943- editor, translator.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections. English

Language:

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Amichai, Yehuda--Translations into English.

Amichai, Yehuda.

Genre:

Poetry.

Translations.

Penn Provenance:

Hoeber, Ditta Baron (donor)

Baron, Herschel (former owner)

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Amichai, Yehuda (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiii, 173 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Harper & Row, [1986]

Summary:

Yehuda Amichai is Israel's most popular poet as well as a literary figure of international reputation. In this revised and expanded collection, renowned translators Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell have selected Amichai's most beloved and enduring poems, including forty new poems from his recent work.from "Tourists" Once I was sitting on the steps near the gate at David's Citadel and I put down my two heavy baskets beside me. A group of tourists stood there around their guide, and I became their point of reference. "You see that man over there with the baskets? A little to the right of his head there's an arch from the Roman period. A little to the right of his head." "But he's moving, he's moving!" I said to myself: Redemption will come only when they are told, "Do you see that arch over there from the Roman period? It doesn't matter, but near it, a little to the left and then down a bit, there's a man who has just bought fruit and vegetables for his family."

Notes:

"The poems in this collection were originally published in Hebrew"--Title page verso.

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy signed by the author.

Other Format:

Online version: Amichai, Yehuda. Poems. English. Selections. Selected poetry of Yehuda Amichai.

ISBN:

0060154101

9780060154103

0060960620

9780060960629

0060550015

9780060550011

OCLC:

13269775