- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) (April 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0151003785
- ISBN-13: 978-0151003785
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 3.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,271,413 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Poetry for the soul
13 Mar 2000
Format:Hardcover
The English translation of Yehudah Amichai's 1998 book of poetry. This is a magnum opus. A poet would be needed to describe the genius of his words. I never "get" poetry. It doesn't work for me. But then I read a poem by Yehudah Amichai and it made sense. Then I went to hear him at a reading at NYU several years ago, and it clicked. One wants to fall in love for the sole reason that one could then use one of his poems. Then I read an excerpt from this book last Fall in "The Forward," and for the past 6 months I have been anxious for this book's release. I bought this book and I consumed it. Reading his poems is like praying, like meditating. Here is one tiny excerpt that is reprinted with permission. If it clicks for you, get the book. "Tova's brother, whom I carried wounded from the battle at Tel Gath, / recovered and was forgotten because he recovered, and died / a few years later in a car crash, and was forgotten / because he died. And even if my bloodied hands / had been prophets then, my eyes saw not / and my feet knew not what the grain in the field knows, / that green wheat ripens yellow. / That's the life prophecy of a field of wheat."
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
The Perfect Ending
3 July 2001
Format:Hardcover
This, the final of Yehuda Amichai's works, lays to rest a life and career memorable to no end. Open Closed Open is about the Israel that is and has been -- tensions that have not faded -- complexities that have not eroded -- and loves that remain in spite of it all. It is, in every sense, a book of poetry, of poetics unequalled. Please read Open Closed Open.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
The violent or anonymous love of God for Israel? A translation mistake
10 Jan 2007
Format:Paperback
There is a translation mistake on p. 45: "God's love for His people Israel is... almost violent", should be: 'almost anonymous' (note the continuation: "on a no-name basis"), as a look at the Hebrew original shows. The words sound similar in Hebrew, and, but for a crucial different letter, are also spelled similarly. Amichai may have intended the double entendre. In this part of the poem Amichai points to the physical, embodied and impersonal use of force on the part of God in the early part of the Exodus narrative, and contrasts this with the spiritual, dis-emboded, and personal God of later Judaism. While this latter God is conventionally rated higher, Amichai finds it "hopeless' to return love to such a dis-embodied God. Love has to be embodied to be real for him.
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