by Maria Rainier For those of you who aren’t acquainted with Yehuda Amichai, he was a brilliant poet with a strong command of both the German and Hebrew languages, born in Germany in 1924. He died just a decade ago of cancer, leaving a legacy of both greatness and unconventional behavior. As Israel’s greatest modern…
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“Hovering at a Low Altitude: The Collected Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch”
W. W. Norton & Co., 2009
If Israel had a Mount Rushmore-type memorial for poets, the late Dahlia Ravikovitch would be part of the monument. Although little known to American readers, she is admired in Israel as much, if not more, than Yehuda Amichai and viewed as a canon unto herself. Born in Ramat Gan in 1936, she published her first poem at eighteen and was a constant voice and presence in Israeli poetry and politics until her death in 2005, achieving, for many, the status of a fifth matriarch. When she received the Israel Prize in 1998, the country s highest literary honor, she was cited as a central pillar of Hebrew poetry during the fifty years of statehood.