Amir Or has published eleven poetry books in Hebrew. He has also published nineteen in Europe, Asia, and America. His poems have been translated into more than forty languages. He has been awarded the Prime Minister’s Prize, Fulbright Award for Writers, Bernstein Prize, the Oeneumi Poetry Prize 2010, the Wine Poetry Prize, and the Stefan Mitrov Ljubisa International Literary Award 2014, as well as fellowships of the Universities of Iowa and Oxford, the Heinrich Boll Foundation, and the Literarische Colloquium, Berlin, among others. His translations into Hebrew include The Gospel of Thomas and Anthology of Erotic Greek Poetry.
Poetry in Transylvania
Mar/Apr 2016
Sunset
In this vulnerable, resting, sunset light the eye is thickened with shadow, deepened by absence. Things hang in space, ground down by being seen, transparent— and the mode they exist […]