When Lives of the Dead was published in Israel, it proved to be enormously popular, went through three editions in its first year and has continued to be reprinted ever since.

Hanoch Levin s poetry forms only a single volume in his collected works, which run to fifteen volumes of drama and prose. His poetic voice however mordant, witty, irreverent, erotic and highly satirical, yet also whimsical and delicate is arresting, distinctive and unusual.

This bilingual edition makes his poetry available to an English-lanugage readership for the first time.