Open Closed Open (Magill’s Literary Annual 2001)
At a glance:
- Author: Yehuda Amichai
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Time of Work: The present, with recollections of the past
- Setting: Israel and Europe
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Europe or Europeans, God, Holocaust, Jewish, Israel or Israelis, Judaism, Prayers
- Locales: Europe, Israel
One of Israel’s greatest modern poets, Yehuda Amichai, who died in September, 2000, at the age of seventy-six, has written a series of poems in Open Closed Open that are among his best accomplishments in verse. They are written in free verse with very strong rhythms and striking metaphors and similes. The title of the collection derives from a rabbinic tale describing the fetus in its mother’s womb, when its mouth is closed and its navel is open, but at birth the reverse is true. In one of the first poems in the collection, “I Wasn’t One of the Six Million: And What Is My...
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