Yehuda Amichai

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  • "Review of Amen." Virginia Quarterly Review 54, No. 2 (Spring 1978): 58. (Calls Amichai "one of the essential poets of our day.")
  • "Review of Time." Virginia Quarterly Review 55, No. 3 (Summer 1979): 108. (Praises Amichai's honest portrayal of his emotions in Time.)
  • Alter, Robert. "Israel's Master Poet." New York Times (8 June 1986): 40. (An overview of Amichai's life and literary career.)
  • Alter, Robert. "Poetry in Israel." In After the Tradition: Essays on Modern Jewish Writing, pp. 241-56. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1969. (An overview of Israeli poetry since the formation of the state of Israel.)
  • Bar-yaacov, Lois. "Review of Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai." Southern Humanities Review XXII, No. 4 (Fall 1988): 402-05. (Praises the translations of Amichai's works and presents Amichai as an Israeli writer observing Jewish history from the outside, disillusioned by historical experiences he did not witness first-hand.)
  • Bar-Yosef, Hamutal. "Hebrew Poetry in the Years Following the Establishment of the State of Israel." Jewish Book Annual 26 (1968-1969): 34-48. (An overview of developments in Hebrew poetry since the formation of the state of Israel.)
  • Corn, Alfred. "Review of Even a Fist Was Once an Open Palm with Fingers." Poetry CLIX, No. 3 (December 1991): 163-66. (Admires Amichai's ability to infuse ordinary images and scenes with extraordinary metaphysical meaning.)
  • Eshel, Amir. "Eternal Present: Poetic Figuration and Cultural Memory in the Poetry of Yehuda Amichai, Dan Pagis, and Tuvia Rübner." Jewish Social Studies 7, no. 1 (Fall 2000): 141-66. (Examines the issue of Jewish cultural memory in the works of three Jewish poets.)
  • Fenton, James. "A review of Time." London Review of Books 1, no. 4 (6 December 1979): 16. (A brief, negative review of Amichai's Time.)
  • Fishelov, David. "Yehuda Amichai: A Modern Metaphysical Poet." Orbis Litterarum 47, no. 3 (1992): 178-91. (Compares Amichai to the seventeenth-century English metaphysical poets, particularly John Donne.)
  • Flinker, Noam. "Saul and David in the Early Poetry of Yehuda Amichai." In The David Myth in Western Literature, edited by Raymond-Jean Frontain and Jan Wojcik, 170-78. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1980. (Discusses Amichai's poetry in which he modernizes the traditional stories of Saul and David.)
  • Gold, Nili Rachel Scharf. "Flowers, Fragrances, and Memories: The Different Functions of Plant Imagery in Amichai's Later Poetry." Hebrew Studies XXXIII (1992): 71-92. (Argues that "images of vegetation serve as a kind of prism through which to observe changes in [Amichai's] poetics.")
  • Gold, Nili Scharf. "Images in Transformation in the Recent Poetry of Yehuda Amichai." Prooftexts 4 (1984): 141-52. (Examines Amichai's poetry, asserting that, in his later poems, he elaborates on a single complex image and demonstrates greater control over his use of figurative language.)
  • Halkin, Hillel. "Yehuda Amichai: The Poet as Prose Writer." Ariel: A Review of Arts and Letters in Israel, no. 61 (1985): 20-24. (Discusses The World is a Room (1985), Amichai's volume of short stories.)
  • Hughes, Ted. "Introduction to Amen, by Yehuda Amichai," 9-15. New York: Harper and Row, 1977. (Discusses the general appeal of Amichai's poetry to a broad international audience.)
  • Intrater, Roseline. "Yehuda Amichai and the Interrelatedness of All Things." Jewish Quarterly 32, no. 3 (Autumn 1985): 39-42. (Discusses Great Tranquility, Amichai's volume of verse, in terms of the themes of modern Israeli identity and Jewish history.)
  • Kronfeld, Chana. "Reading Amichai Reading." Judaism V, no. 45 (Summer 1996): 311-23. (Examines Amichai's references to ancient Jewish texts in his poetry.)
  • Kronfeld, Chana. "‘The Wisdom of Camouflage’: Between Rhetoric and Philosophy in Amichai's Poetic System." Prooftexts 10 (1990): 469-91. (Examines Amichai's philosophical system, as expressed in his poetry.)
  • Merrin, Jeredith. "Yehuda Amichai: Down to Earth." Judaism 45, no. 3 (Summer 1996): 287. (An overview of major themes and stylistic elements of Amichai's poetry.)
  • Siggins, Clara M. "Review of Not of This Time, Not of This Place." Best Sellers 28, No. 7 (July 1, 1968): 137-38. (Finds the novel difficult and "strange" but ultimately rewarding in its examination of identity and reality.)
  • Silker, Nikki. "In the Great Wilderness." Parnassus (Fall/Winter 1983, Spring/Summer 1984): 153-69. (Reviews Amichai's Time (1979), Love Poems (1981), and Great Tranquility (1983).)
  • Sokoloff, Naomi B. "On Amichai's El male rahamim." Prooftexts 4 (1984): 127-40. (Examines Amichai's use of modern colloquial Hebrew in his poetry.)
  • Spicehandler, Ezra. "An Analysis of Yehuda Amichai." Judaism 41, no. 1 (Winter 1992): 96-104. (Reviews the book The Writing of Yehuda Amichai: A Thematic Approach, by Glenda Abramson.)
  • Williams, C.K. "We Cannot Be Fooled, We Can Be Fooled." New Republic 223, no. 1 (3 July 2000): 29-33+. (Reviews Amichai's poetry volume Open Closed Open.)

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