You Who Cross My Path by Bitton, Erez -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Dedication Introduction: The Poetry of Erez Bitton from Blindfolded Landscapes (2013)

Preamble for a Blind Man

Blindfolded Horses The Dog and His Master 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

On the Wounded Night

My Father Gave the Neighbors Roll Call Sights When I Was a Child of Light With the Kids Hoarse Rababa

The Joy of Your Eyes

Your Eyes More and More Not to See Granada Forgetting Something in You You and I Yesterday’s Kiss

The House of Pianos

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 for 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)

He walks past quietly

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 The Poetry of 1991 Our Pain 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-Ferran 1 Al-Keskas ul-Ferran 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

Acknowledgments About the Author About the Translator About Eli Hirsch