Evening Meeting with the Poet’s Daughter

Erez Biton

1979

This evening I met the daughter of the poet Haim Guri

I think, somewhat important in this country,

And she’s a twenty-year-old welfare officer.

At first we just spoke of average stuff,

But then when she heard that I write a bit of poetry myself

She started talking about her father,

She started talking about poetry,

Let’s say about her father,

Let…

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Erez Biton

b. 1942

Erez Biton is a poet, literary editor, and psychologist. Born in Algeria, he immigrated to Israel in 1948, where he was wounded by a grenade and attended schools for the blind. His first book of poems, Minḥah marokait (Moroccan Gift; 1976) had a strong influence on social and ethnic issues in Israel. He founded and is editor of Apiryon, a literary journal dedicated to Mediterranean and Middle Eastern culture.

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