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Review by Bookworm39 -- The Immigrant's Lament

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[Following is a volunteer review of "The Immigrant's Lament" by Mois benarroch.]
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The Immigrant’s Lament by Mois Benarroch is a nonfiction book of poems. It was published by Moben Publishing in 2016. Mois Benarroch was born in Morocco in 1959 but came to Israel in 1972 with his parents. This book of poems is translated in Hebrew and English.

This book was first published in Hebrew in 1994. In Israel, he is an award-winning poet. This author is interesting. He was awarded the Prime Minister Literary Prize in 2008. He was also awarded the Yehuda Amichai Poetry Prize in 2012. I had to look him up since I like his book of poems.

This book contains fifty-three poems in which the author writes about his life. His poems focus on love, family, friends, life and freedom. For the most part, his poems are only a page long but for two it is longer. The two longest poems is The Immigrant’s Lament, which is 18 pages long and the Self Portrait of the Poet in a Family Mirror, which is 12 pages long. The poem The Immigrant’s Lament is the source for the title of the book. In this poem, the poet talks about his life in third person. It focuses on when he and his family left home to go to Israel and different things that happened. This is the first poem that you read. The last poem in this book is the Self Portrait of the Poet in a Family Mirror. This poem is 12 pages long. This poem is about who is he and what he wants. It touches on many subjects.

I love reading and writing poetry and I love this book. Most people love poetry even if they don’t understand it. In this book of poems, the author writes about various aspects of his life. What I like about this book is that there is one poem on each page. This makes it easier for the reader to know when the poem ended.

The only thing that I didn’t like about this book is that the Table of Contents was at the end of the book instead of the beginning of the book. I haven’t seen a book that the Table of Contents was at the end before.

I rate this book of poems by Mois Benarroch, 4 out of 4 stars. This book had a few errors but nothing that takes away what the author is trying to convey. I would recommend this book to all poetry lovers. This would be good for beginning poets.

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This is a great review! I also read this collection and I really enjoyed it too. I was surprised that they put the table of contents at the end since the structure of his poetry seemed crucial to understanding the themes of his work.
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I love reading and writing poetry and I love this book. - we are like-minded in this regard. Nice review!
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Thanks.
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The Immigrant's Lament seems to dwell on the author's typical thematic preoccupation with Jewish issues such as exile, rootlessness and alienation. I have read his prose, would like to have a feel of his poetry. I think the review is well-done.
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Post by tamdlyte »

I'm not a big fan of poetry but there are a lot of good reviews of this one, so maybe I'll give it a try...

And some authors put their Table of Contents at the back of their kindle books so that the previews (on Amazon or B&N, etc.,) show more of the book and not just a bunch of Table of Contents and only a page or two of content. Previews are only a percentage of the book and if preview shows 15%, and your front matter and Table of Contents take up the first 13%, that's only 2% for customers to decide if they want to buy your book or not. Table of Contents at the back of the book allows more content to show.

Just for your info... ;)
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Post by Alice Heritage »

I remember how having the Table of Contents at the end threw me the first time I saw it in a French book. I've got used to it now though, as it's commonplace in many cultures. Your review provides a useful overview of the content anyhow!
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I also read a book on Benarroch. His book was rooted on his Jewish origin. I like this book, I wanna read this one some other time.
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I love reading poetry but only when i understand what the poet talks about. I read this book on immigrant experience and i found the poems engaging and intellectual,so that even non-initiated to poetry could understand what is about.
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Post by Paul78 »

Poetry and I are two worlds far apart. Tried this in high school but nope. I am not into poems.
When I looked at your review and description of the poems, I view you as a lucky person.
Well done this is a great review especially to the lovers of poetry.
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