A. Sutzkever
Selected Poetry and Prose
A Sutzkever author Benjamin Harshav translator Barbara Harshav translator Benjamin Harshav editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:University of California Press
Published:1st Jul '92
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The work of A. Sutzkever, one of the major twentieth-century masters of verse and the last of the great Yiddish poets, is presented to the English reader in this banquet of poetry, narrative verse, and poetic fiction. Sutzkever's imposing body of work links images from Israel's present and past with the extinction of the Jews of Europe and with deeply personal reflection on human existence. In Sutzkever's poetry the Yiddish language attains a refinement, richness of sound, and complexity of meaning unknown before. His poetry has been translated into many languages, but this is the most comprehensive presentation of his work in English. Benjamin Harshav provides a biography of the poet and a critical assessment of his writings in the context of his times. The illustrations were originally created for Sutzkever's work by such artists as Marc Chagall, Yosl Bergner, Mane-Katz, Yankl Adler, and Reuven Rubin.
ISBN: 9780520065390
Dimensions: 234mm x 156mm x 33mm
Weight: 771g
450 pages