This Longing City: Modern Hebrew Poems of Jerusalem by Rachel Tzvia Back (Translator)

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This anthology, translated, edited, annotated and introduced by Rachel Tzvia Back includes 77 Hebrew poems about Jerusalem, written by 41 modern Hebrew poets. The book is in a bilingual format, Hebrew originals facing Back’s English renderings. The collection seeks to introduce to the English-language reader a significant and varied range of Jerusalem poems beyond (though inclusive of) Amichai. Representing almost 100 years of poetic output –from the 1930s until today–and charged with the intense history of these years, this collection both enriches and complicates conventional representations of Jerusalem.

Year first published: 2028