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The Travels of the Last Benjamin of Tudela
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7 minutes
Released:
Mar 28, 2016
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Podcast episode
Description
Yehuda Amichai is probably the best known Israeli poet in the world. Today, host Marcela Sulak celebrates the recent publication of Robert Alter’s The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai - the largest collection of Amichai’s poetry published in a single volume to date. Alter claims that a complete edition of Amichai’s poetry would be three times larger.
Marcela reads from the end of an epic, autobiographical poem “The Travels of the Last Benjamin of Tudela”:
"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 piecestossed into the wooden box is like distant thunder, heralding evil."
Text:The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai. Edited by Robert Alter. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Music:Shimon Bar - Masa'ot Binyamin MiTudelaAlbioni - Adagio in G Minor
Marcela reads from the end of an epic, autobiographical poem “The Travels of the Last Benjamin of Tudela”:
"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 piecestossed into the wooden box is like distant thunder, heralding evil."
Text:The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai. Edited by Robert Alter. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Music:Shimon Bar - Masa'ot Binyamin MiTudelaAlbioni - Adagio in G Minor
Released:
Mar 28, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
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