Amichai's poems bring personal memory into conversation with Jewish history, love, war and mortality. In poems such as “I, May I Rest in Peace” and the sequence that gives the collection its title, the speaker moves between the wish for peace, inherited memories and the limits of an individual life. This English translation is by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld.
Author: Yehuda Amichai
Translators: Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld
Language: English