Yehuda Amichai

Yehuda Amichai was born in Wurzburg, Germany, on May 3, 1924, and emigrated with his family to Palestine in 1936. Amichai has published eleven volumes of poetry in Hebrew, two novels, and a book of short stories. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages. His collections of poetry available in English include Open Closed Open (Harcourt Brace, 2000); The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai: Newly Revised and Expanded Edition (University of California Press, 1996); A Life of Poetry, 1948–1994 (HarperCollins, 1994); Even a Fist Was Once an Open Palm with Fingers (HarperPerennial, 1991); Poems of Jerusalem (Harper & Row, 1988); Great Tranquility: Questions and Answers (Harper & Row, 1983); Love Poems: A Bilingual Edition (Harper & Row, 1981); Time (Harper & Row, 1979); Amen (Harper & Row, 1977); Songs of Jerusalem and Myself (Harper & Row, 1973); and Poems (Harper & Row, 1969). (Source)