Description
This volume offers a representative selection—over fifty poems—of one of the leading Hebrew poets of this generation. Dan Pagis, born in Romania in 1930. spent three years in a Nazi concentration camp. In 1946 he arrived in Israel and subsequently settled in Jerusalem, where he is now professor of medieval Hebrew literature at the Hebrew University. His imaginative landscape extends from the grim vistas of genocide to the luminous horizon of medieval Hebrew poetry and includes a series of “science-fiction” poems where time is accelerated distorted, even reversed.
