Yehuda Amichai was an Israeli poet. Amichai is considered by many to be the greatest modern Israeli poet, and was one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew. Wikipedia
Biographies Chana Bloch , author of the prize-winning Mrs. Dumpty , and co-translator of the Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai and the Song of Songs , directs the Creative Writing Program at Mills College, Oakland, CA. www.griffinpoetryprize.com/shortlist_2001.php?t=4#excerpt
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Celebrated poet Yehuda Amichai wrote of loss and of Jerusalem, of love and war, and in his later years of aging and mortality. www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9699843
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Israeli poet, who also published short stories, novels, and plays. Amichai was among the first to compose poems in colloquial Israeli Hebrew. His language is gently ironic, sometimes passionate or straightforward, or even emotionally dry. Memories from www.kirjasto.sci.fi/amichai.htm