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"To Write the Lips of Sleepers"
The Poetry of Amir Gilboa

Warren Bargad
In 1937, the young Yiddish poet Berl Feldman bade farewell to his family in Radzivil and emigrated to the Land of Israel, where he became the Hebrew poet Amir Gilboa. In this comprehensive study, Warren Bargad describes and interprets Gilboa's works at the various stages of his career and defines his place in the tradition of modern Hebrew poetry.
I. A Cultural Biography
II. Nature and the Poetic Self
III. Poems of War and the Holocaust
IV. New Beginnings
V. The Poet Redux. Toward a Modernist Style
VI. Poetry as Consciousness
VII. The Romantic Modernist
VIII. Posthumous Poems
 
Published by Hebrew Union College Press

$44.95s cloth / ISBN 0-87820-416-4

360 pages

1994