Poems,

by Dan Pagis

AS NEW FIRST EDITION dust jacket hardcover, clean "NEW" text, solid binding, NO remainders NOT ex-library slight shelfwear / storage-wear; jacket is Fair / Good with edge tears; WE SHIP FAST. Carefully packed and quickly sent. 201512503 Dan Pagis (October 16, 1930 – July 29, 1986) was an Israeli poet, lecturer and Holocaust survivor.[1][2] He was born in Rădăuţi, Bukovina in Romania and imprisoned as a child in a concentration camp in Ukraine. He escaped in 1944 and in 1946 arrived safely in Israel where he became a schoolteacher in a kibbutz. He earned his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he later taught Medieval Hebrew literature.[3] His first published book of poetry was Sheon ha-Tsel ("The Shadow Clock") in 1959. In 1970 he published a major work entitled Gilgul – which may be translated as "Revolution, cycle, transformation, metamorphosis, metempsychosis," etc. Other poems "Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car," "Testimony, "Europe, Late," "Autobiography," and "Draft of a Reparations Agreement." Pagis knew many languages, and translated multiple works of literature. We recommend selecting Priority Mail wherever available. (No shipping to Mexico, Brazil or Italy.)

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Published January 1, 1972