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Trying Again to Stop Time: Selected Poems
Jalal Barzanji
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Description for Trying Again to Stop Time: Selected Poems
Paperback. Dream-like cadences of international landscapes, human desire, and visions of a loving and wounded poet. Series: Robert Kroetsch Series. Num Pages: 148 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 135 x 15. Weight in Grams: 208.
“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 ... Read more
“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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Alberta Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Robert Kroetsch Series
Condition
New
Weight
208 g
Number of Pages
148
Place of Publication
, Canada
ISBN
9781772120431
SKU
V9781772120431
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About Jalal Barzanji
Jalal Barzanji is a highly respected Kurdish poet and journalist. He has published seven books of poetry and numerous critical columns. After his two-year imprisonment by Saddam Hussein’s regime in the late 1980s and further political repression into the 1990s, Barzanji and his family fled to Turkey. They remained there for eleven months, eventually immigrating to Canada. Sabah A. Salih ... Read more
Reviews for Trying Again to Stop Time: Selected Poems
"...it will be easy for readers to connect with Barzanji's writing, because his words seep with humanity's universal emotions and occurrences."
Safa Jinje
Quill & Quire
On the Edmonton Journal's Bestsellers list (Edmonton Fiction) for the week of May 8, 2015
Edmonton Journal
Today's book of poetry believes that poetry connects us, makes us more ... Read more
Safa Jinje
Quill & Quire
On the Edmonton Journal's Bestsellers list (Edmonton Fiction) for the week of May 8, 2015
Edmonton Journal
Today's book of poetry believes that poetry connects us, makes us more ... Read more