War & Love, Love & War presents a poetic biography of one of Israel s living literary masters, an artist whom the National Book Award winner C. K. Williams has called one of the most exciting poets writing anywhere, and certainly the most audacious. The book moves from shockingly potent political poems to love lyrics that are as explosive and sometimes bawdy as they are tender; from early and stirring inventories of kibbutz life to a radically inventive midrash on (and paean to) the career and character of the Israeli right-wing leader Menachem Begin; from passion for justice to...