Postcards from the Underworld QueridoSinan Antoon To confront time, pre modern Arabic poems often began with the poet standing before the ruins, real and imagined, of a beloveds home. In Postcards from the Underworld, Sinan Antoon works in that tradition, observing the detritus of his home city, Baghdad, where he survived two warsthe Iran Iraq War of 1980 and the First Gulf War of 1991and which, after he left, he watched from afar being attacked during the US invasion in 2003. Antoons
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and a generous selection of Campos’s prose texts
Winner of the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Poetry Collection at the Forward Prizes 2022
Rendering spaces of waiting
This groundbreaking collection draws together for the first time Vladimir Mayakovsky’s key translators from the 1930s to the present day
diesel oil and force—as she loops the city with the energy of global weather
this book makes me want to write poems again
Manuel Maples Arce (trans
Nasleep neemt de protesten rondom het Gezi Park in 2013 als vertrekpunt en verkent gaandeweg wat er is overgebleven van dit historische moment waarin een andere wereld voor het grijpen leek
which were originally presented as performances
mediating role of the poet: all fixations of Martial’s work that still resonate today
slip in the mud