With This Night
Leah Goldberg
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Description for With This Night
Paperback. The first English translation of the final and most powerful book of poetry by the beloved, award-winning Israeli poet, Leah Goldberg. Translator(s): Kantar, Annie. Series: Binah Yitzrit Foundation Series in Israel Studies. Num Pages: 114 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 142 x 8. Weight in Grams: 174.
When she arrived in Palestine in 1935 at the age of twenty-four, Leah Goldberg was already known as a significant emerging poet in contemporary Hebrew literature. Today, mention of her name is apt to evoke a nostalgic sigh among Israelis who have grown up hearing her poems read, quoted, recollected, and—having been set to some four hundred melodies—sung on the radio. In the wake of overwhelming new attention on Goldberg's work in Israel, With This Night makes available for the first time in English the final collection of poetry that Goldberg published during her lifetime.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
114
Condition
New
Series
Binah Yitzrit Foundation Series in Israel Studies
Number of Pages
114
Place of Publication
Austin, TX, United States
ISBN
9780292726475
SKU
V9780292726475
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About Leah Goldberg
Leah Goldberg (1911–1970) was the author of nine collections of poetry, three plays, three novels, a memoir, literary criticism, children's stories, and translations of Ibsen, Petrarch, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, and other classical and modern poets and novelists. Shortly after her death, Goldberg received Israel's highest honor, the Israel Prize. Annie Kantar is the recipient of an Academy of ... Read more
Reviews for With This Night
"Annie Kantar's versions of Leah Goldberg's late poems bring into English Goldberg's signature combination of resonant clarity and crystalline musicality, and the result is a marvelous translation of what is arguably Goldberg's most powerful book. With This Night lets the English reader eavesdrop on modern Hebrew poetry in one of its finest hours." Peter Cole, 2007 MacArthur Fellow and author ... Read more