Dov Vardi
New Hebrew Poetry.
Tel Aviv: WIZO Instruction and Information Center, 1947. First edition. 109 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.5", is bound in textured blue cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to front cover. Former library book shows shelfwear, with sunning to spine and mild rubbing at edges of covers. Library markings can be seen on spine. Binding is sound. Library attachments and stamps appear on endpapers. Bottom portion of title page has been unevenly excised (from .5" to 1"). Lightly age-toned pages are clean and without markings. Work is illustrated with two tipped-in photographs.
"We have chosen the three Palestinian Hebrew poets who form the subject of our volume, not at random but deliberately. Stemming from the poetic renascence led by Bialik, Tchernichovsky and the other Diaspora Hebrew poets at the turn of the century, it is they whose privileged fate it has been to have created much of the significant new poetry in the Homeland.
First came Avraham Shlonsky, who forged the instruments of modern Hebrew song -- and then, more than a decade later, both Leah Goldberg and Nathan Alterman. The three voices supplement each other and unite down the mainstream of modern Hebrew poetry."