Poetry. Jewish Studies. "If a great poet, as Randall Jarrell once suggested, is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms to be struck by lightning a couple of times,
then Israel Emiot is certainly one of the great poets of the 20th Century. For, no doubt, his best poems, such as ’A Prayer of a Man in Snow’ [...] can stand in the company of such masterful
works as Zbegnew Herbert’s Mr. Cogito poems or Miklos Radnoti’s moving war-time lyrics. That Emiot is not as well known as others is a shame. [...] I envy the readers who will encounter ’A
Prayer of a Man in Snow’ for the first time. It is spellbinding. It is hypnotic. It is a great poem saved for us from a barbarous century."—Ilya Kaminsky
