Come, Take a Gentle Stab: Selected Poems Barakat Salim
Come, Take a Gentle Stab: Selected Poems Barakat Salim Introduces renowned Kurdish-Syrian writer Salim Barkat to an English audience for the first time, with translated selections from his most…
Specifikacia Come, Take a Gentle Stab: Selected Poems Barakat Salim
Come, Take a Gentle Stab: Selected Poems Barakat Salim
Introduces renowned Kurdish-Syrian writer Salim Barkat to an English audience for the first time, with translated selections from his most acclaimed works of poetry.Although Salim Barakat is one of the most renowned and respected contemporary writers in Arabic letters, he remains virtually unknown in the English-speaking world. Come, Take a Gentle Stab features selections from his most acclaimed works of poetry, including excerpts from his book-length poems, rendered into an English that captures the exultation of language for which he is famous.A Kurdish-Syrian man, Barakat chose to write in Arabic, the language of cultural and political hegemony that has marginalized his people. This first collection of his poetry in English, representing every stage of his career, remedies that startling omission.
Like Paul Celan, he mastered the language of the oppressor to