Angry Waves
C.H. Sisson, 18 December 1986
Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai
translated by Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell.
Viking, 173 pp., £12.95, October 1986,0 670 81454 7 Show More
translated by Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell.
Viking, 173 pp., £12.95, October 1986,
“... resolute only about being what he is. What he is, historically and biographically, is summed up by Chana Bloch, in her ‘Foreward’, as follows: ‘Born in Würzburg, Germany, in 1924, he grew up in an Orthodox Jewish home with its strict religious observance and its protective God, as inescapable as family. His father was a shopkeeper, his grandfather ... ”
