Originally published in 1975, Proximal Morocco— is a collection of poems by Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine written in fits and starts during a span of ten years (1964–1974), during the fever pitch of his political exile from his homeland of Morocco which he fled, partly for fear of political persecution and partly to pursue a literary career in Paris, France. Laced with the same politically-inflected Surrealistic fervor as Aimé Césaire, the book is at once a powerful outcry to fellow artists for international solidarity of the colonized and outcast and a documentation of the pain and struggle of exile.