War & Love, Love & War New and Selected Poems

War & Love, Love & War presents a poetic biography of one of Israelrs"s livingliterary masters, an artist whom the National Book Awardwinner C. K. Williamshas called "one of the most exciting poets writing anywhere, and certainly themost audacious." The book moves from shockingly potent political poems tolove lyrics that are as explosive and sometimes bawdy as they are tender; fromearly and stirring inventories of kibbutz life to a radically inventive midrash on(and paean to) the career and character of the Israeli right-wing leader Menachem Begin; from passion for justice to passion for a deeply mourned wife. Atthe end of it all is a prose ars poetica in which Shabtai discusses the methodbehind his marvelous madness. Peter Colers"s powerful translation displays thefull and astonishing range of Aharon Shabtairs"s oeuvre in a single volume for the first time in English.