portada Trying Again to Stop Time: Selected Poems (en Inglés)

Trying Again to Stop Time: Selected Poems (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Jalal Barzanji

Traducido por

Sabah A. Salih

Prefacio de

Sabah A. Salih

Editorial

University of Alberta Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

148

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.3x15.3x0.9 cm

Peso

0.20 kg.

ISBN13

9781772120431

Categorías

Oriente próximo
Canadá
Poesía

Trying Again to Stop Time: Selected Poems (en Inglés)

Jalal Barzanji (Autor) · Sabah A. Salih (Traducido por, Prefacio de) · University of Alberta Press · Tapa Blanda

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"It's a losing battle: my words have no chance against time.Sometimes, unable to catch up with imagination, I leave the battle, candle in hand, in complete darkness." -- from "Trying Again to Stop Time" Jalal Barzanji chronicles the path of exile and estrangement from his beloved native Kurdistan to his chosen home in Canada. His poems speak of the tension that exists between the place of one's birth and an adoptive land, of that delicate dance that happens in the face of censorship and oppression. In defiance of Saddam Hussein's call for sycophantic political verse, he turns to the natural world to reference a mournful state of loss, longing, alienation, and melancholy. Barzanji's poetry is infused with the richness of the Middle East, but underlying it all is a close affinity to Western Modernists. In those moments where language and culture collide and co-operate, Barzanji carves out a strong voice of opposition to political oppression. Readers will return to his work again and again, just as viewers return to a favourite painting. "Like contemporary poets Taslima Nasrin, Adonis, Yehuda Amichai, and Shuntaro Tanikawa, Barzanji's is a voice in which the native willingly mutates into the global."-- Sabah A. Salih, Translator