Nostalgia, My Enemy : Poems - Softcover

Saadi Youssef

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555976298 ISBN 13: 9781555976293

Publisher: GRAYWOLF PRESS, 2012

Synopsis

Nostalgia, My Enemy collects some of the best of Saadi Youssef's most recent poems from the last decade, since the on-going American-led war in his home country of Iraq. In direct, penetrating language, translated from the original Arabic by Sinan Antoon and Peter Money, Youssef's poems dwell on the casualties of the war, the loss of his country, the role of the writer in exile, the atrocities of Saddam Hussein and the inhumane acts perpetrated by American military at Abu Ghraib. This is a powerful collection from the leading poet of the Arab world.

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Review:

"Saadi Youssef was born in Iraq, but he has become, through the vicissitudes of history and the cosmopolitan appetites of his mind, a poet, not only of the Arab world, but of the human universe." --Marilyn Hacker

About the Author:

Saadi Youssef was born in 1934 in Basra, Iraq. He has published more than thirty volumes of poetry and is considered one of the living masters of Arabic poetry. He lives in London.

About this edition

• Publisher: GRAYWOLF PRESS
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1555976298
• ISBN 13: 9781555976293
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 84