Poems | This Is My Mother’s House; On the Day of Atonement

Poems | This Is My Mother’s House; On the Day of Atonement

Looking through Moment’s poetry archive—half a century of dreamwork, meditation, song and lived history—I came across 18 poems by Yehuda Amichai. Born in Germany in 1924 and raised in Jerusalem after his family fled Europe, he fought in wars and advocated for peace. In a 2016 issue of The American Poetry Review, poet and critic David Biespiel described Amichai’s work in terms of its emotional alchemy: “He translates the hardness of existence int…