In Your Words: Translations from the Yiddish and the Hebrew by Seymour Mayne

Seymour Mayne is back with a new book, In Your Words: Translations from the Yiddish and the Hebrew. Featuring a cover painting by Sharon Katz, the collection offers translations from the work of Canadian Yiddish poets, Rachel Korn, Melech Ravitch, and J.I. Segal, and a moving sequence of poems by Abraham Sutzkever, one of the great poets of the Holocaust. Complementing the Yiddish is a selection of poetry in translation from notable contemporary Hebrew poets. The careful attention to imagery and voice yields poems in translation that read with the fluency of originals. A must-have for any poetry library.

Paperback 2017