The unorthodox poetry of Yehuda Amichai

By |2016-02-12T14:11:36-07:00February 12th, 2016|Book Reviews|

  Yehuda Amichai, Israel’s best-known and greatest poet of the past generation died at age 76 in 2000. The noted critic Irving Howe wrote about him: “At his best, he is the best.” Amichai writes in a simple, natural, style poems whose contents a frequently sharp, witty, sensuous, ironic, sometimes brutal, and yet pleasing. The [...]