Found in Translation: Modern Hebrew Poets - Couverture souple

Friend, Robert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1592641741 ISBN 13 : 9781592641741

Editeur : Toby Press Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

Found in Translation is a collection of the key works of 20th century Hebrew poetry, translated to English by the distinguished America-Israel poet and translator, Robert Friend. The collection has a kind of serendipitous coherence as a representative anthology of 20th century Hebrew poetry.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Robert Friend 1913-1998 Robert Friend was an American poet, translator, and educator who lived for nearly fifty years in Jerusalem. Friend was born in 1913 in Brooklyn, New York to Russian immigrant parents. After studying at Brooklyn College, Harvard and Cambridge, he taught English literature and writing in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Panama, France, England, and Germany. Robert Friend settled in Israel in 1950. He taught English and American Literature at the Hebrew University for over thirty years, at the same time becoming well-known as a poet (writing in English) and as a translator of Hebrew poetry. His poems and translations have appeared in many periodicals, including The New York Times, Encounter, The London Magazine, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Partisan Review, Poetry, Ariel, Commentary, The Jerusalem Post, and The Jerusalem Review. His publications include ten volumes of his own verse and six volumes of translations from Hebrew poets. A review of his work in the Jerusalem Review notes that Robert Friend is generally considered to be the most prominent figure among English language writers in Israel. According to the American Cultural Center in Jerusalem, Robert Friend was truly committed to his art, promoting and encouraging the development of English language poetry in Israel, and making Hebrew poetry more accessible through the translations.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Toby Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1592641741
• ISBN 13: 9781592641741
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 211
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• Personne responsable: non disponible