The Immigrant's Lament - Softcover

Mois Benarroch

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1930149115 ISBN 13: 9781930149113

Publisher: Writers Pub Coopertive, 2002

Synopsis

This is the English edition of Benarroch's first book, published in Israel in 1994. Now considered a classic, the English edition also includes 30 new poems written in English. the Hebrew poems were translated by the author.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Poets from Canada, the U.S., the U.K. and Israel.

From the Inside Flap:

"Benarroch tells us that the homeland is always somehwere else, not on maps, it is the smell of an orange tree in Granada on an evening that never existed." Jose Luis Garcia Martin, El Mundo, Spain, 2000

"Moshe Benarroch is one the best Israeli poets writing today." Natan Zach, haaretz, Israel, 19 oct. 2000.

"There are no holds barred in this honest look at life as a human being." Jo Ann Miller, poetrytodayonline.com january 2001.

"Benarroch is the raging bull of Israeli literature." Yaron abituv, Kol Hazman, march 2001.

"Benarroch opens a world of emotions, where there is a place for the stupidity of people and their decisions against minorities, and all is done with good poetry." Antonio Luis Gines, Cuadernos Del Sur, Spain 21 December 2000

"Sometimes poetry is a bit more, or a bit less, than poetry: A document."Clarin no. 30, Spain, Nov.-Dec 2000.

"Moshe Benarroch transforms permanent exile, the impossibility to adapt and the eternal escape, into his vital poetics." Xulio Valcarcel, El ideal gallego, Spain, 25 feb.2001

"Benarroch seems to hold in his hands not only the world, but also the memory of the world as well." Julia Uceda. 2000. Introduction to "Esquina En Tetuan".

About this edition

• Publisher: Writers Pub Coopertive
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1930149115
• ISBN 13: 9781930149113
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 127