Books by Yehuda Amichai
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by Yehuda Amichai
A friend of mine, the brilliant young novelist Nathan Englander, introduced me to this poet when I visited him in Jerusalem a couple of years ago. They are the poems of an older man, about love and death and all the stuff that poets usually do. But he has bits and pieces about the insane struggle for Israel to exist and the history that led to its foundation. It also has all the humanity and prophetic arrangement of word and image that is amongst the best poetry, so that’s why I recommend it.
Interviews where books by Yehuda Amichai were recommended
The best books on Israel, recommended by Michael Goldfarb
Award-winning broadcast journalist and author chooses five books on Israel. He says that perceptions of Israel and Palestine are always filtered through expectation and prejudice – which makes the problem unsolvable
