Simon Armitage
...stage plays, amongst which is Mister Heracles, a version of the Euripides play The Madness of Heracles. He was commissioned by the BBC to dramatize The Odyssey, broadcast on Radio 4 in 2004,...
Paul Celan
Paul Celan (1920-1970) is widely regarded as Europe’s greatest postwar poet. Born in Romania, Celan was an eastern European Holocaust survivor, who settled in Paris after the war where he...
Chana Kronfeld
Chana Kronfeld, who teaches Hebrew and Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley, writes about Amichai in her On the Margins of Modernism, winner of the MLA’s Scaglione Prize. Open Closed Open 2001...
Chana Bloch
...and aplomb by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld. These last poems by the greatest Israeli poet of the modern era are marked by the humanity and humor, which have always...
Yehuda Amichai
...USA Purchase Judges’ Citation These last poems by the greatest Israeli poet of the modern era are marked by the humanity and humor, which have always characterized his work. These...
Les Murray
...for example. And in certain paintings; I have sprawl enough to have forgotten which paintings. Turner’s glorious Burning of the Houses of Parliament comes to mind, a doubling bannered triumph...
Victor Hernandez Cruz
...Maraca is testament to its author’s singular genius in a world he maintains so compassionately for all who will share it with him. Read Full Citation Selected poems by Victor...
Fernando Pessoa
...pagan, and, more recendy, has been seen as objectivist and phenomenalist. O Guarda-dor de Rebanhos was Caeiro’s major work. Fernando Pessoa, considered the greatest modernist poet in Portuguese, died in...