Creator Bio
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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Evening Meeting with the Poet’s Daughter
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…