After the First Rain: Israeli Poems on War and Peace

Sixty-five Israeli poets write of their despair over war and their fierce craving for peace. One reviewer wrote “the tragedy of war and hopes for peace, the alef and tav of Israeli life, shine through this moving collection.” Among the 35 translators of poems in this collection, all with Moshe Barbara Goldberg, Jane Hirshfield, Shirley Kaufman, the late William Matthews, Steven Mitchell, Linda Pastan,  Myra Sklarew and Henry Taylor.