Aharon Shabtai
An Israeli poet born in 1939, Shabtai is notorious for his poems of frank erotic confessionalism and political rage, which appear regularly in the leading newspaper, Ha’aretz. On another side, he is the primary translator of classical Greek literature into Hebrew. New Directions published his book, J’Accuse, in 2003 and War & Love: Love & War: New and Selected Poems in 2010, both translated by Peter Cole. Also available in English is _Love & Selected Poems _(Sheep Meadow, 1997).