Yehuda Amichai, Poems of Jerusalem and Love Poems (1988)

Rereading all the translated volumes of the poetry of the Israeli Yehuda Amichai . . . I've become more than ever convinced that he is one of the biggest, most essential, durable poetic voices of this past century—one of the most intimately alive and human, wise, humorous, true, loving, inwardly free and resourceful, at home in every place and in every human situation. One of the real treasures.