These eighty poems were translated by Yehuda Amichai from the original Hebrew. He did this with the aid of his great friend Ted Hughes. It is not surprising then that the poems are clean and clear, that their language has a crispness which does not confuse or confound the reader. The volume contains much of the usual Amichai meditative poetry. He thinks about War and Death, about Love about fidelity and infidelity, about Jerusalem Holy and Unholy, united and divided. As always irony and complexity are in his lines, and it is possible to take them with whatever wistfulness, sadness and at times delight one can. Amichai is a great modern Hebrew poet. This work provides real evidence of what his major themes and concerns are.