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Nostalgia, my enemy : poems / Saadi Youssef ; translated from the Arabic by Sinan Antoon and Peter Money.

by Yūsuf, Saʻdī.

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Minneapolis, Minn. : Graywolf Press, c2012.

Arabic poetry -- Iraq -- 21st century.

9781555976293 (pbk.) :

1555976298 (pbk.)

xii, 78 p. ; 23 cm.

Introduction / Sinan Antoon and Peter Money -- Prologue : On poetry -- Undead nature -- Still life -- A difficult variation -- O nostalgia: my enemy -- The pagan's prayer -- The concerns of a man, 2000 BC -- The evening the game was over -- Don't say -- A neighbor -- The barbarians' village -- I saw my father -- Cloves -- Making love -- Tonight I imitate Pasolini -- The sun that never comes -- Free Iraqis -- I will wait -- A secret entrance to Fortezza -- The night of the icy lake -- The glance -- Nature -- The days -- No play -- Four sections on place -- Fulfillment -- Observing -- Seasons (4) -- Conversation -- Hamlet's balcony -- The balcony of the poor house -- Andes butterflies -- An abandoned shore -- Imru' al-Qays' grandson -- Mustafa the Egyptian -- Rock-solid time -- The homeless man and the squirrel -- Chess -- Light hallucination -- The Irish rose -- New Orleans -- The wretched of the heavens -- December -- The last Communist goes to heaven -- Bees visit me -- Heavy time -- Evening by the lake -- A desperate poem -- A fawn behind the fence -- A spring downpour -- Listening.

"This book collects some of the best of Saadi Youssef's most recent poems from the last decade, since the ongoing 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. What emerges is the powerful voice of a writer for whom "Poetry transforms in that intimate moment which combines the current and the eternal in a wondrous embrace."--Amazon.com, viewed February 25, 2013.

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