Product Description: Tuvia Rübner, winner of the Israel Prize for Poetry (2008) and the 2012 recipient of the Konrad-Adenauer Prize for Literature, is a Hebrew poet who lost his family in the Holocaust. He turned his personal trauma into a broad world view that engages with Western culture - his poetry highlighting correspondences with paintings by Chagall, Breughel, Holbein, Turner, and Rembrandt...read more

Product Description: "Verses to be added to the end of Deuteronomy"Are you kidding, let it be,just write that we were born, we were here,and we drowned in the sea.That’s enough. Keep the final versesshort, in your generosity, just hint that it’s bad here,without love, in the desert, the old people grumbling,even dying all the way here,a long journey and contention...read more

A first U.S. publication of poetic works by the multiple award-winning Israeli writer includes pieces about a suicide bomber disguised as a pregnant woman, a dream about marriage to Stephen Hawking, and memories about deceased parents. Original.