The selected poetry of Yehuda Amichai Author:Yehuda Amichai Poetry. Yehuda Amichai is Israel's most popular poet as well as a literary figure of international reputation. His poetry has been translated into more than thirty languages. Renowned translators Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell have selected Amichai's most beloved and enduring poems from his eleven volumes and have included forty new poems fr... more »om his recent work in this revised and expanded collection. "For sheer energy of imagination, for the constantly renewed sense of poetry's ability to engage reality, Amichai has no close competitors on the Israeli scene, and perhaps only a few worldwide." --Robert Alter, New York Times Magazine.« less