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Aharon Shabtai is an Israeli poet. He has written over fifteen books of poetry and has received the Prime Minister’s Prize in Israel for his translation of Greek dramas into Hebrew. (updated 6/2010)

Peter Cole is the author of several collections of poetry and the translator of the Selected Poems of Shmuel HaNagid (Princeton University Press, 1996). A 2007 MacArthur Fellow, he is the founder and co-editor of Ibis Editions. (updated 6/2010)