Erez Bitton

You Who Cross My Path (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Keller, Tsipi

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This first US publication of Erez Bitton, one of Israel's most celebrated poets, recalls the fate of Moroccan Jewish culture with poems both evocative and pure. Considered the founding father of Mizrahi Israeli, a major tradition in the history of Hebrew poetry, Bitton's bilingual collection dramatically expands the scope of biographical experience and memory, ultimately resurrecting a vanishing world and culture.

Preliminary Background Words

My mother my mother from a village of shrubs green of a different green. From a bird's nest producing milk sweeter than sweet. From a nightingale's cradle of a thousand Arabian nights.

My mother my mother who staved off evil with her middle fingers with beating her chest on behalf of all mothers.

My father my father who delved into worlds who sanctified the Sabbath with pure Araq who was most practiced in synagogue traditions.

And I— having distanced myself deep into my heart would recite when all were asleep short Bach masses deep into my heart in Jewish- Moroccan.

Erez Bitton was born in 1942 to Moroccan parents in Oran, Algeria, and emigrated to Israel in 1948. Blinded by a stray hand grenade in Lod, he spent his childhood in Jerusalem's School for the Blind. He is considered the founding father of Mizrahi poetry in Israel—the first poet to take on the conflict between North African immigrants and the Ashkenazi society, and the first to use Judeo-Arabic dialect in his poetry. His most recent award is the Bialik Lifetime Achievement Award (2014).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: BOA Editions Ltd.
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781938160882
• Artikelnr.: 43405119

Autorenporträt

Erez Bitton: Born in 1942 to Moroccan parents in Oran, Algeria, Erez Bitton emigrated to Israel in 1948. Blinded by a stray hand grenade he found near his home in Lod, he spent the rest of his childhood in Jerusalem's School for the Blind. He received a B.A. in Social Work from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and an M.A. in Psychology from Bar Ilan University. He wrote a weekly column for the Israeli daily Ma'ariv and worked as a social worker and as a psychologist. His first two books, A Moroccan Offering (1976) and The Book of Na'na (1979), established him as the founding father of Mizrahi poetry in Israel-the first poet to take on the conflict between North African immigrants and the Ashkenazi society, and the first to use Judeo-Arabic dialect in his poetry. The author of five poetry collections and a play, he has served as chairman of the Hebrew Writers Association, and is the editor-in-chief of the literary journal Apyrion, which he founded in 1982. Among his awards are the Miriam Talpir Prize (1982), the Prime Minister's Prize (1988), the Yehuda Amichai Prize (2014), as well as the Bialik Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2014). His collection The Book of Na'na was published in French (Editions Saint Germain, 1981). Bitton lives in Tel Aviv, Israel, with his wife Rahel Calahorra, and is father to a son and a daughter.

Tsipi Keller was born in Prague, raised in Israel, and has been living in the U.S. since 1974. The author of nine books, she is the recipient of several literary awards, including National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowships, New York Foundation for the Arts fiction grants, and an Armand G. Erpf award from Columbia University. Her most recent translation collections are Poets on the Edge: An Anthology of Contemporary Hebrew Poetry (SUNY Press), and The Hymns of Job & Other Poems, a Lannan Translation Selection (BOA Editions). In addition to Erez Bitton's You Who Cross My Path (BOA Editions), her selected volume of Raquel Chalfi's poems, Reality Crumbs, will be published in 2015 (SUNY Press).

Eli Hirsch is a poet, editor, and literary critic. Born in Petach Tikva in 1962, he published his first poems in 1979, and holds a graduate degree in Philosophy from Tel Aviv University. He is the author of four volumes of poetry, and his most recent collection is Hanging Gardens of Tel Aviv (Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2012). He has published numerous book reviews and essays, and, since 2007, writes a weekly column on poetry in the Literary Supplement of the daily Yediot Ahronot. He was Editor in Chief at Modan Publishing, and is currently (since 2003) the Literary Editor at Hargol Publishing House. Hirsch teaches Creative Writing in the Literature Department at Tel Aviv University.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Introduction: The Poetry of Erez Bitton FROM Blindfolded Landscapes (2013) Blindfolded Horses The Dog and His Master The Poem of the Cane This Summer For the Algerian Poet Rabah Belamri To Say Desert Treaty with the Elder Son Late Learning You Who Cross My Path My Father Gave the Neighbors Roll Call Sights When I Was a Child of Light With the Kids Hoarse Rababa Your Eyes More and More Not to See Granada Forgetting Something in You You and I Yesterday's Kiss Families at the Jerusalem School for the Blind Sketching the Future at the Jerusalem School for the Blind Children at the Jerusalem School for the Blind Becoming a Weaver The Child Sitting in Corners at the School of the Blind Voices For Gvira Mommy Wrap for Me Yom Kippur at the School for the Blind For Elisheva Kaplan On Top of a Wall FROM Timbisert, A Moroccan Bird
New and Selected Poems (2009) A Broken Nightingale A Broken Nightingale Heart Valve My Mother, Her Children Wouldn't Live Lod Cemetery At Sunset On Winter Mornings For Aharon ben Chmou Ballad about a Town at Sunset The Wail of Women Lullaby in the Town of Oran We Are Strangers Spanish Song Clipped Orange Trees Poem at the Heart of Jerusalem In the Sealed Rooms Cesspits Poem of 1991 Our Pains at Night A Moroccan Offering Preliminary Background Words Zohra El Fassia A Marginal Boy and a Social Worker Elegies for ben Shushan A Purchase on Dizengov Moroccan Wedding On the Earthquake in Agadir Meeting The Book of Na'na The Love of Children in White Caftans Uncle Yehuda Sharvit between Marrakesh and Draa Summary of a Conversation Mother Is Cajoling a Bird Al-Keskas ul-Feran 1 Al-Keskas ul-Feran 2 At the Feet of the Women Zaish Sullika's Qasida Intercontinental Bird To Speak Within the Light In Praise of the Dreamers of Jerusalem To Speak of a City to its Face My Mother Collects Down Scaffolding Addendum: Excerpts from Ana Min al-Maghrib [I'm from the Atlas Mountains]
Reading Erez Bitton's Poetry (Hakkibutz Hamehuchad, 2014)
nine essays, by scholars and poets, selected and edited by Ktzia Alon and Yochai Oppenheimer. Acknowledgments About Erez Bitton About Tsipi Keller About Eli Hirsch Critical response to Erez Bitton's work Index of titles and first lines