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Baghdad, Adieu: Selected Poems of Memory and Exile

Baghdad, Adieu: Selected Poems of Memory and Exile

Hamdani, Salah Al
Alland, Sonia

Hardcover

Series: Arab List

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

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ISBN10: 0857425447
ISBN13: 9780857425447
Publisher: Seagull Books
Published: Jan 15 2019
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
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.

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