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Book SynopsisIntroduces renowned Kurdish-Syrian writer Salim Barkat to an English audience for the first time, with translated selections from his most acclaimed works of poetry.
Trade Review"Barakat's exceedingly resistant and exhilaratingly strange verse--paradoxically written by someone who seems absolutely rooted to the depths of the earth while yet able to see humanity as if through the mind of some other being, perhaps language itself--is finally available to English readers. One can only hope that Huda Fakhreddine and Jayson Iwen's resounding translation summons greater interest in the work of this astonishing modern master."--Ammiel Alcalay, poet, scholar, critic, and translator
Table of ContentsEvery Insider Shall Hail Me and Every Outsider Too (1973) Dinoka Breva, Come, Take a Gentle Stab (excerpt) Union of Lineages Pike (1980) Dylana and Diram (excerpt) With the Same Traps, with the Foxes that Ride the Winds (1982) Fog Composed like a Gentleman Revenge The Recklessness of Sapphire (1996) Ledgers of Plunder (excerpt) Digression in an Abridged Context Confrontations, Pacts, Troughs, and Others … (1997) Plastics (excerpt) Ran’s Farm From Syria (2015) From All the Doors (2017) Lineages of Animal (2019) Dog Turtle Flea Fish Homo Erectus
