Baghdad, Adieu: Selected Poems of Memory and Exile Contributor(s): Hamdani, Salah Al (Author), Alland, Sonia (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0857425447 ISBN-13: 9780857425447 Publisher: Seagull Books OUR PRICE: $22.05 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections - Poetry | European - General |
Dewey: 841.92 |
Series: Arab List |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.3" W x 8.8" (0.85 lbs) 264 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Iraqi poet Salah Al Hamdani has lived a remarkable life. The author of some forty books in French and Arabic, he began life as a child laborer, with little or no education. As a political prisoner under Saddam Hussein, he learned to read and write Arabic; once he was released form prison, he continued to work against the regime, ultimately, at age twenty-one, choosing exile in Paris. He now writes in French, but he remains a poet of exile, of memory, wounded by the loss of his homeland and those dear to him. This landmark collection gathers thirty-five years of his writings, from his first volume in Arabic, Memory of Embers, to his latest collection, written originally in French, For You I Dream. It offers English-language readers their first substantial overview of Al Hamdani's work, fired by the fight against injustice and shot through with longing for the home to which he can never return. |
Contributor Bio(s): Alland, Sonia: - Sonia Alland is a writer and translator who divides her time between New York City and her home in a village in southern France.Hamdani, Salah Al: - Salah Al Hamdani was born in Baghdad in 1951. He is the author of some forty books in both Arabic and French. He lives in France. |