The Poet Of Baghdad
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The Poet Of Baghdad
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Author : Jo Tatchell
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2010-04-21
The Poet Of Baghdad written by Jo Tatchell and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-21 with Fiction categories.
In the winter of 1979 Nabeel Yasin, Iraq's most famous young poet, gathered together a handful of belongings and fled Iraq with his wife and son. Life in Baghdad had become intolerable. Silenced by a series of brutal beatings at the hands of the Ba'ath Party's Secret Police and declared an “enemy of the state,” he faced certain death if he stayed. Nabeel had grown up in the late 1950s and early '60s in a large and loving family, amid the domestic drama typical of Iraq's new middle class, with his mother Sabria working as a seamstress to send all of her seven children to college. As his story unfolds, Nabeel meets his future wife and finds his poetic voice while he is a student. But Saddam's rise to power ushers in a new era of repression, imprisonment and betrayal from which few families will escape intact. In this new climate of intimidation and random violence Iraqis live in fear and silence; yet Nabeel’s mother tells him “It is your duty to write.” His poetry, a blend of myth and history, attacks the regime determined to silence him. As Nabeel’s fame and influence as a poet grows, he is forced into hiding when the Party begins to dismantle the city’s infrastructure and impose power cuts and food rationing. Two of his brothers are already in prison and a third is used as a human minesweeper on the frontline of the Iran-Iraq war. After six months in hiding, Nabeel escapes with his wife and young son to Beirut, Paris, Prague, Budapest, and finally England. Written by Jo Tatchell, a journalist who has spent many years in the Middle East and who is a close friend of Nabeel Yasin’s, Nabeel's Song is the gripping story of a family and its fateful encounter with history. From a warm, lighthearted look at the Yasin family before the Saddam dictatorship, to the tale of Nabeel’s persecution and daring flight, and the suspense-filled account of his family’s rebellion against Saddam's regime, Nabeel's Song is an intimate, illuminating, deeply human chronicle of a country and a culture devastated by political repression and war.
Plague Lands And Other Poems
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Author : Fawzi Karim
language : en
Publisher: Carcanet
Release Date : 2011-02-24
Plague Lands And Other Poems written by Fawzi Karim and has been published by Carcanet this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-24 with Poetry categories.
Born in Baghdad in 1945, now living in London, Fawzi Karim is one of the most compelling voices of the exiled generation of Iraqi writers. In the first collection of his poetry to appear in English, his long sequence Plague Lands' is an elegy for the life of a lost city, a chronicle of a journey into exile, haunted by the deep history of an ancient civilisation. Memories of Baghdad's smoke-filled cafés, its alleys and mulberry-shaded squares, the tang of tea, of coffee beans...arak, napthalene, damp straw mats', are recalled with painful intensity. Karim's defiant humanity, rejecting dogma and polemic, makes him a necessary poet for fractured times. Working closely with the author, the poet Anthony Howell has created versions of Plague Lands' and a selection of Karim's shorter poems. Notes on the poems, Elena Lappin's introduction and an afterword by Marius Kociejowsky exploring Karim's life, illuminate the context of the poetry.
Baghdad Adieu
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Author : Salah Al Hamdani
language : en
Publisher: Arab List
Release Date : 2018
Baghdad Adieu written by Salah Al Hamdani and has been published by Arab List this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Literary Collections categories.
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.
Baghdad
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2013-11-18
Baghdad written by and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-18 with Poetry categories.
Baghdad: The City in Verse captures the essence of life lived in one of the world's enduring metropolises. This unusual anthology offers original translations of 170 Arabic poems from Bedouin, Muslim, Christian, Kurdish, and Jewish poets--most for the first time in English--from Baghdad's founding in the eighth century to the present day.
Baghdad Mon Amour
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Author : Salah Al Hamdani
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 2008-04
Baghdad Mon Amour written by Salah Al Hamdani and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Baghdad, Mon Amour is a memoir by Salah Al Hamdani centered on his imprisonment under Saddam Hussein, his subsequent exile in France for more than thirty years, and his emotional return to Baghdad and seeing his family again after all those years with feelings of tremendous joy but also guilt for having “abandoned” them. The beauty of Al Hamdani’s prose and poetry is skillfully captured in Sonia Alland’s translation.
Flying Over Baghdad With Sylvia Plath
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Author : Paul David Adkins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-12-04
Flying Over Baghdad With Sylvia Plath written by Paul David Adkins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-04 with Poetry categories.
Poetry as hero, not heroic poetry. Just masterful verse which performs extraordinary work in extraordinary circumstances. No one has, likely, ever uttered the words, "Read Jennifer Kronovet's collection; it will save your life!" That is, until today. Because it has, for me. All the poets introduced here have literally plucked me from flames. I had to make sense of Afghanistan, Iraq, The Surge, our Senate's approval of The Surge, my family's struggles in my absence, and the moral decrepitude of the undertakings of conflict, these ones, and all the ones before. Years ago, poet Donald Finkel introduced me to the writings of Albert Goldbarth. His piece "Knees/Dura-Europos" made me grasp the overwhelming continuity of war, its timelessness, and how Goldbarth confronted it with lines like, "This is what's happening now," and, "This is what's going to happen." So, the questions is, What is poetry doing about it? Because we know war happened, happens, and will happen again. Well, if you ask the poets represented in this book, they can truly say, "We are denying it an enclave;" "We have named it what it is;" "We have plowed its fields with salt;" "We have refused to clothe or feed it." There is no need to charge barricades. These poets have denied war the ability to traverse their land, in the time-honored guerilla fashion of refusing an enemy sustenance, support, a base from which to operate and raze surrounding country. While I served in President Bush's wars, their work became a series of safe houses, places I could find sympathy and support. So now, having departed these wars, reviewing my experiences, I pin these tiny medals on the poets that did a hero's work, pulled me from the fire, fed me bread and wine in the dark, warm corners of their books.
The Iraqi Nights
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Author : Dunya Mikhail
language : en
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Release Date : 2014-05-27
The Iraqi Nights written by Dunya Mikhail and has been published by New Directions Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-27 with Fiction categories.
A stunning new collection by one of Iraq's brightest poetic voices
Placing The Poet
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Author : Terri DeYoung
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 1998-04-09
Placing The Poet written by Terri DeYoung and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-04-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
CHOICE 1998 Outstanding Academic Books This is a comprehensive study of the most widely celebrated of twentieth-century Iraqi writers, Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, whose premature death in 1964 from Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS) was lamented in cultural circles throughout the Arab world. This book makes available to English-speaking readers for the first time an unprecedented amount of information about a single Arab poet (including a large selection of previously untranslated poetry). In addition, it places the poet's work in the broader context of postcolonial resistance to Western hegemony, illuminating obscure aspects of his writing and relating it to other authors of his time.
Black Butterflies Over Baghdad
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Author : David Allen Sullivan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-10
Black Butterflies Over Baghdad written by David Allen Sullivan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10 with Poetry categories.
Chosen by Tim Seibles for The Hilary Tham Capital Collection. Brian Turner says Sullivan "listens across cultures and across languages in order to undo the erasures of time and power," calling this "a book of compassion and deep humanity." Poems spring from inspirations as various as paintings by Iraqi painters, the voices of Iraqi poets, co-translation projects with poets living there or in exile, and daily life in Iraq itself. Co-translations comprise one section of the collection and give a priceless cross-section of Iraqi poets today. Says Seibles: "David Allen Sullivan gives us an intimate tour of war-torn Iraq, an intricate look at the minds of people for whom military violence had become a defining part of daily life. Because these figures speak with such authority and desperation, reading this collection disrupts and deepens the way we, who have not lived with war, perceive its terrible damage. The poems are at times poignantly lyrical and in other moments darkly magical--as if the reader has somehow entered the poet's more than real dreamscape. I don't know if art can save us from self-annihilation, but to echo Muriel Rukeyser slightly: David Allen Sullivan's poetry is the kind of thing that might help us back away from the brink." Lola Haskins adds: "Sullivan's book left me in a state of shock and awe: shocked by the terrible sufferings of the Iraqi people, and awed by the high and heart-breaking grace of the survivors who present them. For me, the most resonant word in the poems is 'blood,' not because it's so often used, but because of its double meanings: the literal--the substance in all our veins that's essential to life, and the figurative--'family,' which is the heart the whole collection wears on its metaphoric sleeve: that we are all, wherever we come from, family." Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies.
The Baghdad Blues
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Author : Sinan Antoon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
The Baghdad Blues written by Sinan Antoon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Literary Criticism categories.
These poems convey the sense of shock and horror at the human cruelty and waste of war in Iraq.
