Contributor News: Praise for “The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai,” translated by Robert Alter.
ILLUSTRATION: Riccardo Vecchio; SOURCE: The New Yorker Writing in The New Yorker, James Woods reviews the long-awaited collected poems of Yehuda Amichai, newly translated by eminent scholar Robert Alter and published as The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai. Some of the poems and Alter’s introduction to them first appeared in Broad Street’s “Dangerous Territory.” http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/01/04/like-a-prayer Alter describes Amichai’s poetry as...