Hailed as one of the leading Israeli poets, Benarroch´s poetry has been published in a fifteen languages, including Urdu and Chinese. Julia Uceda considers that Benarroch holds the memory of the world in his poetry, while Jose Luis Garcia Martin thinks that his poems are more than poetry, they are a document. A witness of his time, Benarroch started writing poetry when he was 15, in English, and has always written in his mother tongue Spanish. When he was 20 he also added Hebrew to his poetry languages and he has published eleven poetry books in Israel.
This collection includes all Benarroch's poetry translated into English or written in English and all his books The Immigrant's Lament, Take Me To The Sea, Horses and Other Doubts, The Day The Jihad Destroyed Berlin, The Teachings Of Baraka.
Mois Benarroch was born in Tetuan/Morroco and lives in Jerusalem. He has published more than twenty books. He was awarded the Prime Minister prize for writers in 2008, and the Yehuda Amichai poetry prize in 2012.
