Dan pagis autobiography poem samples

By Dan Pagis

Translated by Stephen Mitchell

Dan Pagis (1930-1986) was one of the most vibrant voices in modern Israeli poetry and is considered a major world poet of his generation.

Dan Pagis, born in 1930 at Radautz in Rumanian Bukovina, was raised in Vienna. A survivor of the Nazi concentration camps, he came to Israel and lived for a while in Kibbutz Merhavia.

Dan pagis autobiography poem samples pdf

After teaching for several years at the regional kibbutz school in Qiryat Gat, he enrolled at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and supported himself as a high school teacher of Hebrew literature. The holder of a doctorate in medieval Hebrew poetry, Pagis has been on the faculty of the Hebrew University since the early 1960s and has published several scholarly works on medieval Hebrew Poetry .

Much of Pagis’s early poetry exhibits the word plays, allusions, and verbal virtuosity of the medieval Hebrew poetry with which he is so familiar.

To these linguistic qualities Pagis has added much wit and a wry charm