Pain, Pining, and Pine Trees: Contemporary Hebrew Poetry

by Yair Mazor

Yair Mazor offers an illuminating history of Jewish poetry from Biblical times to the twentieth century. He provides biographies of nine poets--David Fogel, Rachel, Yehuda Amichai, Nathan Zach, Dalia Rabikovitz, Dan Pagis, Yair Horwitz, Yona Wollach, and Ronny Someck--and generous selections of their work in translation. The book includes illustrations by Nachum Gutman.

Distributed for the Center for Jewish Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9653062034
• ISBN13: 9789653062030
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Papyrus Publishing House
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 3.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.5" x 11.0"