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Great Tranquillity
Questions and Answers
Yehuda Amichai; Glenda Abramson, trs.; Tudor Parfitt, trs.
Sheep Meadow Press
1997 • 86 pp. 6 x 9"
Poetry / Israeli Studies / Jewish Studies
$12.95 Paper, 978-1-878818-68-3
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Endorsements:
"Amichai has entered that small, accidental, permanent company of poets - Hikmet, Milosz, Vallejo - who speak for each of us and all of us by redefining our nobility, by speaking to us in his voice of many selves"—Stephen Berg
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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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