Poems of Jerusalem and Love Poems

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Summary: lovely
Review: some translations could be better, but a lovely anthology of a beautiful poet. Try "hebrew verse" by carmi for english/hebrew of other hebrew poetry.

Rating:
Summary: lovely
Review: some translations could be better, but a lovely anthology of a beautiful poet. Try "hebrew verse" by carmi for english/hebrew of other hebrew poetry.

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Summary: One of those voices you should stop and listen to
Review: Yehuda Amichai is the kind of poet whose words and images you remember at the oddest times. He sticks to your mind - maybe because the quiet force with which he speaks of shadow and light, places and times, seasons and colors, longing and joy. Ever-present in his work are the themes of love, loss, and the harsh reality of war, but the effect is never one of violence - Amichai's poems have always made me feel peaceful and strangely contented. He is a poet for empathizing with. After reading him I feel as if I had taken a long walk on a sunny afternoon in the quiet neighborhood that I love. Excuse me for the ranting, but I can find no better way to express it. His Jerusalem emerges both as a real - and beautiful - city, and as an enchanted place where (like in the old fairytales) nothing is casual or common. He writes in the way I myself would like to write.

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Summary: do you remember the taste of heartbreak? you will.
Review: Yehuda Amichai's poetry is so close to the marrow of grief andlove and hope and longing that when you put down this book, you willhave loved and lost and wept with him. The rooms he has inhabited will be your rooms. And maybe, just maybe, is she isn't already, the city Yerushalayim will be your city as well. Buy this book...