{"product_id":"the-flower-of-anarchy-selected-poems-paperback","title":"The Flower of Anarchy: Selected Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMeir Wieseltier\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eShirley Kaufman\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeir Wieseltier's verbal power, historical awareness, and passionate engagement have placed him in the first rank of contemporary Hebrew poetry. \u003ci\u003eThe Flower of Anarchy, \u003c\/i\u003ea selection of Wieseltier's poems spanning almost forty years, collects in one volume, for the first time, English translations of some of his finest work. Superbly translated by the award-winning American-Israeli poet-translator Shirley Kaufman-who has worked with the poet on these translations for close to thirty years-this book brings together some of the most praised and admired early poems published in several small books during the 1960s, along with poems from six subsequent collections, including Wieseltier's most recent, \u003ci\u003eSlow Poems, \u003c\/i\u003epublished in 2000. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Moscow in 1941, Wieseltier spent the first years of his life, during the war, as a refugee in Siberia, then again in Europe. He settled in Tel-Aviv a few years after coming to Israel in 1949 and has lived there ever since. A master of both comedy and irony, Wieseltier has written powerful poems of social and political protest in Israel, poems that are painfully timeless. His voice is alternately anarchic and involved, angry and caring, trenchant and lyric.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Flower of Anarchy\u003c\/i\u003e contains some of Meir Wieseltier's most fierce, angry, and beautiful poems. Wieseltier is the savage yet compassionate poet of Tel Aviv: a bold, tormented and playful poet of a bold, tortured and sexy city.--Amos Oz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The distinguished and gifted poet-translator Shirley Kaufman gives us Meir Wieseltier's poems as poetry. The vibrancy and momentum of these versions are extraordinary.\"--Adrienne Rich\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"We almost don't have this kind of poetry in America--erotic, political, audacious, wise, brutal. I die that I can't share the Hebrew, but what the music is comes through, as well as the voice, the immense resonant voice. This book is a great gift.\"--Gerald Stern\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A master-draftsman of Tel Aviv's bleaker landscapes, Meir Wieseltier is also a brutal observer of his society and its dominant myths. This gathering of the poet's work by Shirley Kaufman takes us into the dark heart of Wieseltier's verse--from the peeling plaster and seamy sweatshops of Tel Aviv to the 'dull khaki light' of the country's larger cultural prospect. All is here, in translations that faithfully convey both the harshness and clarity that have made Wieseltier one of the most influential Israeli poets of his time.\"--Peter Cole, translator of \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems of Solomon Ibn Gabirol\u003c\/i\u003e and author of \u003ci\u003eHymns \u0026amp; Qualms\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Layered and nuanced in his poetic expression, and exceptionally gifted in his vivid, self-reflexive metaphors, Wieseltier is a poet of great poetic vision and verbal power. Working closely with the poet, Shirley Kaufman has turned this book into an authoritative volume of the work of Israel's leading living poet.\"--Chana Kronfeld, author of \u003ci\u003eOn the Margins of Modernism: Decentering Literary Dynamics, \u003c\/i\u003e and co-translator (with Naomi Seidman) of \u003ci\u003e\"The First Day\" and Other Stories by Dvora Baron\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMeir Wieseltier\u003c\/b\u003e studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, published his first poems at the age of eighteen, and has won many literary awards, as well as the Israel Prize, his country's highest honor for lifetime achievement, awarded in 2000 by the Israeli establishment to its most anti-establishment poet. \u003cb\u003eShirley Kaufman, \u003c\/b\u003eprize-winning American-Israeli poet and translator, has published eight volumes of her own poems, the two most recent of which are: \u003ci\u003eRoots in the Air: New and Selected Poems \u003c\/i\u003e(1996), and \u003ci\u003eThreshold \u003c\/i\u003e(2003). She has also published several books of translations from Hebrew of the works of Amir Gilboa and Abba Kovner, and from Dutch of the work of Judith Herzberg.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 168\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.52 x 8.22 x 5.62 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 16, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42133464023175,"sku":"9780520235533","price":48.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/918d5879a1c67ce568ad4c1f0e792607.webp?v=1732634548","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-flower-of-anarchy-selected-poems-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}