The Threshold
The Threshold A selection of luminous, fiercely intelligent verse from Egypt's premier poet.Iman Mersal is Egypt's--indeed, the Arab world's--great outsider poet. Her early work captures the energies…
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The Threshold
A selection of luminous, fiercely intelligent verse from Egypt's premier poet.Iman Mersal is Egypt's--indeed, the Arab world's--great outsider poet. Her early work captures the energies of Cairo's legendary literary bohme, a home for "Lovers of cheap weed and awkward confessions / Anti-State agitators" and "People like me." These are poems of wit and rage, freaked by moments of sudden beauty, like "the smell of guava" mysteriously wafting through the City of the Dead. Over the past three decades, she has crafted a voice that is ferocious and tender, street-smart and vulnerable.
Other poems bear witness to agonizing loss and erotic temptation, "the breath of two bodies that never had enough time / and so took pleasure in their mounting terror." Mersal's most recent work illuminates the trials of displacement and migration, as well as the risks of crossing
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