War & Love, Love & War: New and Selected Poems (New Directions Paperbook) - Softcover

Shabtai, Aharon

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ISBN 10: 0811218902 ISBN 13: 9780811218900

Verlag: NEW DIRECTIONS, 2010

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War & Love, Love & War presents a poetic biography of one of Israel’s livingliterary masters, an artist whom the National Book Award–winner C. K. Williamshas called “one of the most exciting poets writing anywhere, and certainly themost audacious.” The book moves from shockingly potent political poems tolove lyrics that are as explosive and sometimes bawdy as they are tender; fromearly and stirring inventories of kibbutz life to a radically inventive midrash on(and paean to) the career and character of the Israeli right-wing leader Menachem Begin; from passion for justice to passion for a deeply mourned wife. Atthe end of it all is a prose ars poetica in which Shabtai discusses the methodbehind his marvelous madness. Peter Cole’s powerful translation displays thefull and astonishing range of Aharon Shabtai’s oeuvre in a single volume for the first time in English.

Biografía del autor:

Born in 1939 and educated on a kibbutz, and at the Hebrew University, the Sorbonne, and Cambridge, Aharon Shabtai is the author of sixteen books of poetry and the greatest contemporary translator into Hebrew of Greek drama.

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• Verlag: NEW DIRECTIONS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0811218902
• ISBN 13: 9780811218900
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192