Sixty Years of Israeli Poetry Between War and Peace
Hanoch Guy
“Sixty Years of Israeli Poetry Between War and Peace” examines the deepest recesses of the Israeli psyche. From the elation of the victory of 1948 and the founding of the state sprang hope for peace and the realization that more wars will have to be fought and terrorism will have to end. We will follow three generations of soul-searching agonized poets who grapple with personal existence and the state’s existence through joy, hardship and perseverance. During the eighties and nineties, poetry of protest and dissent expressed exhaustion and despair because of nonstop cycles of violence and opposition to west bank occupation. We hope to read from the works of A.Z.Greenberg, Amichai, Ravikovitz, Alterman, Rubner, Sivan and Gilead. Special attention will be paid to universal war symbols and the applications of biblical motifs to modern Israel. Note: A special booklet is being prepared for the course.
Hanoch Guy grew up in Israel. He is a bilingual poet, Hebrew and English. His works have appeared in Genre, Poetry Newsletter, Tracks, The International Journal of Genocide studies, Visions International, and Poetica, from whom he won an award. The Mad Poets Society gave him an award in 2007. His recent works include both Hebrew poems and English poems. He has taught at the NHC Institute chai times.
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