Pain, Pining and Pine Trees: Contemporary Hebrew Poetry

This text offers a history of Jewish poetry from Biblical times to the 20th century. The author provides biographies of nine poets - David Fogel, Rachel, Yehuda Amichai, Nathan Zach, Dalia Rabikovitz, Dan Pagis, Yair Horowitz, Yana Wollach and Ronny Someck - and generous selections of their work in translation. The book includes illustrations by Nachum Gutman.