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The World's Embrace. Selected Poems.
Abdellatif Laabi
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Description for The World's Embrace. Selected Poems.
Paperback. Poems with great lyric power treat the heritage, history, and aspirations of Morocco and the Arab world. Translator(s): Reinking, Victor W.; George, Anne. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 137 x 10. Weight in Grams: 242.
Compelling poems from one of the most prolific and critically acclaimed of contemporary North African writers. Imprisoned for many years by the Moroccan authorities, Laabi's poetry is haunted by memories of torture and prisons and bears witness to his preoccupations with-and resistance to-the growing international sickness of state-supported inhumanity. Abdellatif Laabi was born in 1942 in Fez. In 1966, he founded the avant-garde literary and artistic journal Souffles, which helped spark a literary and artistic renaissance through North Africa. Imprisoned for seven years in the '70s for his political beliefs and his writings, he has lived in Paris since ... Read more
Compelling poems from one of the most prolific and critically acclaimed of contemporary North African writers. Imprisoned for many years by the Moroccan authorities, Laabi's poetry is haunted by memories of torture and prisons and bears witness to his preoccupations with-and resistance to-the growing international sickness of state-supported inhumanity. Abdellatif Laabi was born in 1942 in Fez. In 1966, he founded the avant-garde literary and artistic journal Souffles, which helped spark a literary and artistic renaissance through North Africa. Imprisoned for seven years in the '70s for his political beliefs and his writings, he has lived in Paris since ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
City Lights Books United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Monroe, OR, United States
ISBN
9780872864139
SKU
V9780872864139
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