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Poems of Jerusalem and Love Poems
Yehuda Amichai
Sheep Meadow Press
distributed by
University Press of New England
1992 • 277 pp. 6 x 9"
Poetry / Israeli Studies / Jewish Studies
$15.95 Paper, 978-1-878818-19-5
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"The kind of resonantly simple poetry that is the work of a great poet." —The New York Times
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YEHUDA AMICHAI was born in Wurzburg, Germany, in 1924 and emigrated with his family to Palestine in 1936. Amichai published eleven volumes of poetry in Hebrew, two novels, and a book of short stories. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages. In 1982, Amichai received the Israel Prize for Poetry, and he became a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1986. He lived in Jerusalem until his death on September 25, 2000.
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