In poems marked by tenderness and mischief, humanity and humor, Yehuda Amichai breaks open the grand diction of revered Jewish verses and casts the light of his own experience upon them. Here he tells of history, a nation, the self, love, and resurrection. Amichai's last volume …
Amichai writes of the language of love, and tea with roasted almonds, of desire and love. Of a Jewish cemetery whose groundskeeper is an expert on flowers and seasons of the year, but no expert on buried Jews; of Russian shirts embroidered in the colors of love and death; of Jer…
'The Full Severity of Compassion' is both a modular retrospective of Yehuda Amichai's poetric project and a reassessment - by attending closely to the theory embedded in the poetry - of major issues in contemporary literary studies, from the politics of form to radical allusion,…
'The Full Severity of Compassion' is both a modular retrospective of Yehuda Amichai's poetric project and a reassessment - by attending closely to the theory embedded in the poetry - of major issues in contemporary literary studies, from the politics of form to radical allusion,…
Introduction : "Be an other's, be an other" : a personal perspective -- Beyond appropriation : reclaiming the revolutionary Amichai -- "In the narrow between" : Amichai's poetic system -- "I want to mix up the Bible" : intertextuality, agency, and the poetics of radical allusion…
'The Full Severity of Compassion' is both a modular retrospective of Yehuda Amichai's poetric project and a reassessment - by attending closely to the theory embedded in the poetry - of major issues in contemporary literary studies, from the politics of form to radical allusion,…
'The Full Severity of Compassion' is both a modular retrospective of Yehuda Amichai's poetric project and a reassessment - by attending closely to the theory embedded in the poetry - of major issues in contemporary literary studies, from the politics of form to radical allusion,…