Like shooting a self-portrait.
In one poem, this author tells his father: "you must have made / Cherries that you loved, / Black with so much redness!" He wrote a poem that begins: "On some other planet you may be right, / but not here." One poem by him asks: "What then is my life span? Like shooting a self-portrait." This author of The Hour of Grace and "A Meeting with My Father" described adults taking care of children by shading them "Like a tree over the sleeper on the public bench." One poem by him begins: "My life is the gardener of my body." Joe's dissertation on D.G. Castleman is ruined when Castleman starts publishing bad poetry, in his radio play (*) Killing Him. He wrote "I wasn't one of the six million who died in the Shoah" in one poem; and he read his poem "God has pity on kindergarten children" at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for Yitzhak Rabin. For 10 points, name this author of Open Closed Open, Israel's most acclaimed 20th-century poet.  
In one poem, this author tells his father: "you must have made / Cherries that you loved, / Black with so much redness!"
Yehuda Amichai [or Ludwig Pfeuffer] 