Except for This Unseen Thread - Couverture souple

Abdulqadir, Ra'ad

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1946433802 ISBN 13 : 9781946433800

Editeur : Ugly Duckling Presse, 2021

Synopsis

Published in Baghdad in 2006, Falcon with Sun Overhead<\/em> and The Age of Entertainment<\/em> inspired a new generation of Iraqi poets, charmed by Ra\x27ad\x27s ability to write tender poems in times of destruction and fury. While many of his peers were writing poems about battlefields and faraway exiles, Ra\x27ad was looking closer in, at the loneliness of those left behind. Hailed for its cinematic portrait of Iraq under sanctions \-\-the bread queues, busy cemeteries, empty schools, and the impossible departures and returns, Ra\x27ad\x27s work commemorates the wonders of a city staying still, one blink at a time. EXCEPT FOR THIS UNSEEN THREAD, the first collection of Ra\x27ad\x27s work in English translation, is comprised of poems selected from both titles, with an introduction by the translator.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ra'ad Abdulqadir (1953-2003) was a pioneer of the Iraqi prose poem, the author of five poetry collections, and a lifelong editor of Aqlam, Iraq's leading literary magazine. EXCEPT FOR THIS UNSEEN THREAD: SELECTED POEMS (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2021), translated by Mona Kareem, is his first collection in English translation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ugly Duckling Presse
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1946433802
• ISBN 13: 9781946433800
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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