The Selected Poetry of Dan Pagis (Literature of the Middle East)

By Dan Pagis

Book Overview

Dan Pagis (1930-1986) spent three of his adolescent years in a Nazi camp before arriving in Palestine in 1946. He became one of the most vibrant voices in modern Israeli poetry and is considered a major world poet of his generation. A master scholar of Hebrew literature, Pagis drew fully on classical texts and infused his poetry with a centuries-old mysticism. Yet he also brought an immediacy and colloquialism to Hebrew poetry. In these superbly translated poems, Dan Pagis's voice can be heard celebrating the human spirit.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520205391
• ISBN13: 9780520205390
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.2"