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Oberlin. 1986. Field Translation Series/Oberlin College. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0932440215. Translated by Shirley Kaufman. Field Translations Series 11. 159 pages. paperback. Cover design by Stephen J, Farkas, Jr. Photo by Hayim Goldgraber. Inscribed by translator Shirley Kaufman. keywords: Poetry Jewish Translated Hebrew. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Abba Kovner's My Little Sister, acclaimed as a major poem-sequence about the Holocaust, is published now in a revised translation from the Hebrew, with a new selection from Kovner's work since 1965. In a career that spans more than 40 years, Kovner has published fiction, essays, and 10 volumes of poetry that have earned him international recognition and established him as one of Israel 's finest poets. Leader of the Partisans in Vilna when the Nazis invaded Poland, Abba Kovner settled on a kibbutz in Israel after the war. The poems in this book were chosen with the aim of collecting in English Kovner's most representative work, work that by the power and restraint of its personal response to the Holocaust proves poetry is possible after Auschwitz. Abba Kovner seeks and discovers metaphysical significance in suffering, wrote Stephen Spender in his introduction to Shirley Kaufman's first translation of My Little Sister. The American poet, who began to translate Kovner before moving to Jerusalem in 1973, is well known for her earlier collections of Kovner and Amir Gilboa, and as the author of 5 volumes of her own poetry, most recently From One Life To Another and Claims. inventory #43097.
