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Yehuda Amichai is probably the best known Israeli poet in the world. Today, host Marcela Sulak celebrates the recent publication of Robert Alter\u2019s The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai\xa0-\xa0the largest collection of Amichai\u2019s poetry published in a single volume to date. Alter claims that a complete edition of Amichai\u2019s poetry would be three times larger.

Marcela\xa0reads from the end of an epic, autobiographical poem \u201cThe Travels of the Last Benjamin of Tudela\u201d:

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"The players sat inside, the talkers on the verandah:
half my love, my left hand, a quarter of a friend,
a man half dead. The sound of the killed pieces
tossed into the wooden box is like distant thunder, heralding evil."

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Text:
The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai. Edited by Robert Alter. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.

Music:
Shimon Bar - Masa'ot Binyamin MiTudela
Albioni - Adagio in G Minor

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