In the Days of the Cotton Wind and the Sparrow

“Rafi Aaron is a poet] who allows simple, fresh, vivid words to cut individual jewels out of the material of language.” —The Toronto Star

“Rafi’s poems bask in the ethos of a world of prophets on mountaintops, and stray-travellers-at-your-door, timeless and existing in different incarnations. Everywhere there is the whisper of a teasing seductress, fraught with confusion, sackcloth and uncertainty, and in that whisper you hear the master of the poet’s craft, ‘banishing your thirst’ for travel beyond the borders of all that you know.” —Paul Hamann, The New Quarterly

“His prose poems are] powerful, evocatively imagined works, rich in detail, and intellectual resonance.” —The Malahat Review

Rafi Aaron is an award-winning poet who has written four books of poetry and a play. His poems have been widely published in literary magazines and anthologies, as well as translated into Hebrew. He has read his poetry in such venues as the Canadian Consulate in New York City, the Jewish National Museum in Washington, D.C., and the University of St. Petersburg, Russia. A documentary on Rafi’s poetic works entitled The Sound Traveller has aired on Bravo TV and Book Television.