Come, Take a Gentle Stab (häftad)
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Inbunden (Klotband)
Språk
Engelska
Serie
Arab List
Utgivningsdatum
2021-09-15
Förlag
Seagull Books London Ltd
Översättare
Huda Fakhreddine, Jayson Iwen
Dimensioner
236 x 163 x 18 mm
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363 g
ISBN
9780857428882

Come, Take a Gentle Stab

Selected Poems

av Salim Barakat
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2021-09-15
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Although Salim Barakat is one of the most renowned and respected contemporary writers in Arabic letters, he remains virtually unknown in the English-speaking world. This first collection of his poetry in English, representing every stage of his career, remedies that startling omission. Come, Take a Gentle Stab features selections from his most acclaimed works of poetry, including excerpts from his book-length poems, rendered into an English that captures the exultation of language for which he is famous. A Kurdish-Syrian man, Barakat chose to write in Arabic, the language of cultural and political hegemony that has marginalized his people. Like Paul Celan, he mastered the language of the oppressor to such an extent that the course of the language itself has been compelled to bend to his will. Barakat pushes Arabic to a point just beyond its linguistic limits, stretching those limits. He resists coherence, but never destroys it, pulling back before the final blow. What results is a figurative abstraction of struggle, as alive as the struggle itself. And always beneath the surface of this roiling water one can glimpse the deep currents of ancient Kurdish culture.
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Salim Barakat is a Kurdish-Syrian writer who has published dozens of novels and poetry anthologies. Raised in northern Syria, he lived in Beirut and Cyprus before settling in Sweden, where he lives today. Huda J. Fakhreddine is the author of several novels. She teaches Arabic literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Jayson Iwen is the author of several books. He is professor of writing and English literature at The University of Wisconsin-Superior.

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