Antoon Sinan - Postcards From The Underworld Poems - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Postcards From The Underworld Poems
Author(s): Antoon Sinan
Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
Barcode: 9781803092508
Pages: 96 Pages
Publication Date: 10/4/2023
Category: Poetry By Individual Poets