Great Tranquillity: Questions and Answers - Hardcover

Amichai, Yehuda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060151889 ISBN 13: 9780060151881

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, 1983

Synopsis

The international reputation of Yehuda Amichai, one of Israel's leading authors, continues to grow, and this new collection of his poems is certain to add to his stature and popularity in America. Great Tranquility is Amichai's most powerful collection since Amen (1977). Many of the poems derive from the experience and awareness of a man in middle life---Israeli soldier, veteran, citizen, husband, father, Jew---his consciousness seasoned by the complex feelings of the long view of life and deepened by the political, military and moral crises that have beset his country. This is poetry that presents the "still, sad music of humanity" with a modern Jewish tone and a spare but intimate idiom.

About this title

From the Publisher:

6 x 9 trim. LC 97-32012

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0060151889
• ISBN 13: 9780060151881
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 90