The great poet safely traversed a minefield by counting in poetic meters.

A great Yiddish poet’s past and future.

“Lava its seeds. Atoms/ Fermented forth primevally.”

Black Honey.

Young trees covered in snow, . . . charmingly disturbing,

Siberia magically upends a litany of misery for him and his people.

The Nazi center for Jewish research and the paper brigade.

“Toys.”

In a new translation.

Avraham Sutzkever, one of the greatest Yiddish poets of the 20th century, began his literary career in Vilna in the 1930s. After the arrival of. . .