Produkt
KlappentextA chilling poetic reflection on the world we have inherited and the destructions that made it. To confront time, pre-modern Arabic poems often began with the poet standing before the ruins, real and imagined, of a beloved´s home. In Postcards from the Underworld, Sinan Antoon works in that tradition, observing the detritus of his home city, Baghdad, where he survived two wars-the Iran-Iraq War of 1980 and the First Gulf War of 1991-and which, after he left, he watched from afar being attacked during the US invasion in 2003. Antoon´s poems confront violence and force us not to look away as he traces death´s haunting presence in the world. Nature offers consolation, and flowers and butterflies are the poet´s interlocutors, but they too cannot escape ruin. Composed in Arabic and translated into English by the poet himself, Postcards from the Underworld is a searing meditation on the destruction of humans, habitats, and homes.
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-80309-250-8
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2023
Erscheinungsdatum05.08.2023
Seiten96 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 157 mm, Höhe 229 mm, Dicke 9 mm
Gewicht160 g
Artikel-Nr.60303798
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GenreRomane Taschenbuch