This collection features poems from Al-Azzawi’s six previous Arabic poetry collections and many new poems. Springing from classical Arabic poetry, his poems speak to political exile, -cultural marginalization, and Middle Eastern and Western histories and mythologies. Al-Azzawi employs -humor, melancholy and tenderness to celebrate new worlds of possibility.
Fadhil Al-Azzawi
was born in 1940 in Kirkuk, Iraq. By the time he was -fifteen, he was publishing poems in the leading Arab literary magazines in Beirut and Baghdad. Al-Azzawi -currently lives in London.
Khaled Mattawa
(Translator) is the author of a -collection of poetry,
Ismailia
Eclipse, and the translator of two books of contemporary Arabic poetry, Hatif Janabi’s
Questions
and
Their Retinue
and Saddi Youssef’s
Without an Alphabet, Without a Face
.