In Praise Of Defeat : Poems by Abdellatif Laabi

19.90 

de Abdellatif Laabi,

Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith
Format Paperback | 250 pages
Publication date 19 Jan 2017
Publisher ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS
Publication City/Country New York, United States
Language English
ISBN10 0914671596
ISBN13 9780914671596

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Descrição

One of the central writers and thinkers in contemporary Maghreb letters and banned by the Moroccan government, Abdellatif Laabi’s poetry is increasingly influential on the international scene and spans six decades of political and literary change, innovation, and struggle. Including a wide range of work, from piercing domestic love poetry to a fierce lyricism of social resistance informed by nearly a decade spent in prison for crimes of opinion, all of Laabi’s poetry is situated firmly against tyranny and for life–an almost mythic sense of spiritual and earthly joy emanates from this resistance through the darkness of political oppression. This selection of poetry has been masterfully rendered into English for the first time by Donald Nicholson-Smith and introduced by the eminent poet and critic Pierre Joris–the first in translation to be chosen by Laabi himself.