You Who Cross My Path by Erez Biṭon and translated by Eli Hirsch, Tsipi Keller

This is poetry from Algeria.

You Who Cross My Path by Erez Biṭon translated by Eli Hirsch, Tsipi Keller is published by BOA Editions, Limited. This is a Book originally written in Hebrew. This was published in 2015.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781938160875E12.

With You Who Cross My Path, Erez Biṭon enters the English-language poetry shelf through Eli Hirsch, Tsipi Keller’s translation from Hebrew. The book can be situated through migration, encounter, Mizrahi memory, and the crossed path, though its real life will happen in the reader’s contact with particular lines. A useful review should make room for that uncertainty. I would not promise that every poem will open immediately, and I would not want it to. Some books matter because they give us something complicated to think beside. This one belongs in the translated poetry library because it carries a distinct pressure of poetry connected to Algeria: not a report about elsewhere, but a living encounter with another arrangement of sound, memory, and feeling.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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