Collected Poems Author:Avraham Ben Yitzhak, Hannan Hever, Peter Cole Avraham Ben Yitzhak, also known as Abraham Sonne, was a Galicia-born, Berlin-and-Vienna-bred Hebrew writer who fled Europe for Palestine in the late thirties. In a career lasting decades, he published only eleven poems, yet he is considered today one of Hebrew s most important and original poets. Elias Canetti revered him and considered him his ... more »mentor, and wrote: "[He had] only a very few, hymnlike poems, perhaps less than a dozen, but they were of such perfection that he had been numbered among the masters of the newly revived language." This bilingual volume contains all of the published poems, as well as a selection of material from the Ben Yitzhak archives. The poems, translated by Peter Cole, are introduced and annotated by Hannan Hever, the foremost authority on Ben Yitzhak and editor of the standard Hebrew edition of his work.« less