Moshe Benarroch Touches the themes of immigration, the confrontation with a new country, discrimination against minorities, love, the family, poetry, poets and life in general.
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Benarroch is the raging bull of Israeli literature. -- Yaron Abituv, Kol Hazman, Israel, March 2001
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, Las Caras De La Noticia, Spain, 2000
Moshe Benarroch is one of the best young Israeli poets writing today. -- Natan Zach, Haaretz 19.10.2000 Israel
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 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, Las Caras De La Noticia, Spain, 2000
Moshe Benarroch is one of the best young Israeli poets writing today. -- Natan Zach, Haaretz 19.10.2000 Israel
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
About the Author
pages, 9.95$) and "You walk on the land until one day the land walks on you". He was born in Morocco and lives in Israel. He writes in three languages, Hebrew, Spanish and English and his poetry has been published in hundreds of magazines worldwide. He was featured poet in the international Austin poetry festival, 1999, in poetrymagazine.com (july 2000) and has read his poetry in Israel, Spain and the US. He has published ten books, of poetry prose and one novel.
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The Flowers of Exile,
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There is no exile worse than the internal kind. There is no pain greater than the pain of alienation. There is no craving stronger than the desire to be seen. There is no urge more urgent than longing to belong. And there is no one who knows these truths more than Moshe Benarroche and who expresses them more faithfully. Whether in straightfoward and wistfull narrative, or in fantastic and naively colourful prose, Moshe is there and you are there, surrounded by generations past and engulfed by an all-pervasive yearning. His poetry is an hand extended, an ablution, the smells of childhood, the silent scream of the suppressed and the ignored and the mocked. Moshe knows that the meek shall inherit the earth - but the price is dear. The lost is never found. There is no resurrection in his poems, just a netherland of peripatetic people, looking to connect, looking to comprehend - ultimately, striving to be. A tour de force. But it - and learn Hebrew to read his other tomes. I can't remember the last time that an author's work kept me awake and talking to myself.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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A Sheer Delight!,
This review is from: You Walk on the Land Until One Day the Land Walks on You (Paperback)
Benarroches poetry is born out of the crucible of his own life's journey -- the deep influences of Spain, Morocco, and Israel, a virtual metonymy of Exiled Man, a poet powerfully modern, but one who brings to his readers the terrible centuries of the past. Throughout these 147 poems, Benarroche poignantly speak to discrimination, exile, and immigration, as the reader hears echoes of the Jewish quarters in Seville and Gerona, the ancient Moroccan festival of Mimuna, and the modern streets of Tel Aviv. But he is more than a glimpse into the fascinating worlds that have long since disappeared. From out of this milieu Benarroche weaves marvelous narrative poems, indictments against human pride in our time, resonating with clarity of voice and intensity of vision. Witness how his verse becomes proverbs of our modern world: 'I asked exile to be my country' (Country); 'the only homeland left for me/is the land of poetry' (The Swallows); 'if you see me in the street and I don't say/hello/it is not a declaration of war/but a look/into the future' (If You See Me In The Street). Benarroche is a poet much deserving of a wider audience!
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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A tour de force in world poetry,
This review is from: You Walk on the Land Until One Day the Land Walks on You (Paperback)
Moshe Benarroch ... publishes here in English in this 250 pages collection many of his best poems from the last 10 years. If I remember well, the long poem "Self portrait of the poet on a family mirror" was published in Hebrew in Hadarim in 1990 or 1991. This poem bares more than resemblance to the similarly titled poem by John Ashbery and digs well into the Tradition of the long poem in American literature. The latest poem on the book is probably "Free Aryeh Deri" from 2000, a long poem about the most famous (and according to Benarroch political) prisoner in Israel. Then we have the long litany "The immigrant's lament" that leaves the lines fixed for years in the mind of readers. "The immigrant's lament" is the title of Benarroch's first book, published in 1994, and has since become a cornerstone of avant-garde Israeli literature. The following of this book seem to grow every year, in spite of the book being disregarded by the establishment and universities. Benarroch deals with the inequalities in Israeli society, the discrimination of Jews against Jews He does it constantly and consistently, and has been called by a critic "the raging bull of Israeli literature". It seems that Benarroch has a good chance of winning the corrida at the end of the day by exhausting the matador. If you think that all this will lead you to your protest poetry plate, you are in for a surprise too, this poetry is incredibly sentimental, cool and collected. The screams are surrounded by whipped cream, the noise of the cars by leaves falling, the cries by the sound of waves on the sea. After all is read and done, the message is a message of forgiveness, of knowing that we are all human and of peace. Suffering in Benarroch's poems is the way to happiness in this world, and in the next too. Benarroch's poetry has a very personal and unique voice, influenced by Alen Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski, Pablo Neruda, Israeli and Spanish poetry, as well as South American and north American poetry. The long lines of poets who have influenced him and his encyclopedic knowledge of 20th century poetry, doesn't make him a dull poet to read. On the contrary his poetry is crystal clear, and the nuances and complexities are only see on a third or forth reading, and not the other way round. It's accessible and simple without being simplistic.
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