Postcards from the Underworld – Poems

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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A 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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Utgivningsdatum2023-08-05
Mått6 x 9 x 9 mm
Vikt162 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieArab List
Antal sidor96
FörlagSeagull Books London Ltd
ISBN9781803092508

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Sinan Antoon is a poet, novelist, scholar, and translator based in New York. He holds degrees from Baghdad, Georgetown, and Harvard where he earned his doctorate in Arabic literature, and is currently an associate professor of Arabic Literature at New York University. His translation of Mahmoud Darwish’s last prose book, In the Presence of Absence, won the 2012 American Literary Translators’ Award. His most recent work is the novel The Book of Collateral Damage, which was longlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2016 and published in English translation in 2019.

PrayerPsalm (I)The DayThe New GodFrom the Lost GospelsFrom Eve’s ConfessionsDivine FailureI Hear It Blind SongThe Saz PlayerGarmentA Heavy HeartVisitationIn my next lifeA FeatherAutumn in HeavenTrain of the DeadIntervalMurmurBlack ButterflyBirth CertificateAnother DayRest Your HornsThe PoetSlow MailDays Like ThisDismembermentA HeadAfterwords An Ordinary DayLetter to al-MutanabbiA PhotographOne Night; In Many CitiesHeard on New Year’s EveA Handbag in China TownA Butterfly in New YorkWinesongI Don’t Visit My MotherAngels on my CeilingAngelus NovusAn Alternative HistoryCrossingPhosphorusCrazy HorseAnamorphosis?/Iraq We Shall WaitLetter to My AncestorThe Angel’s TrumpetThe Day’s CatchThis Was Not WrittenA Postcard from the UnderworldNostalgia for LightA New SunPsalm (II)SceneWars A Prisoner’s SongTo an Iraqi InfantA Prism; Wet with WarsDelvingPhantasmagoria IPhantasmagoria IISiftingThe Milky WayWrinkles on the Wind’s ForeheadStringsA SignFrom the Diary of a GhostJust Another Evening (in black & you)AbsenceAfterword