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  title info:
    title: Postcards from the underworld
    sub title: poems
  name:
    name part: Antoon, Sinan
    name part: 1967-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 99 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: A chilling poetic reflection on the world we have inherited and the destructions that made it. To confront time, pre-modern Arabic poems often began with the poet standing before the ruins, real and imagined, of a beloved's home. In Postcards from the Underworld, Sinan Antoon works in that tradition, observing the detritus of his home city, Baghdad, where he survived two wars, the Iran-Iraq War of 1980 and the First Gulf War of 1991 and which, after he left, he watched from afar being attacked during the US invasion in 2003. Antoon's poems confront violence and force us not to look away as he traces death's haunting presence in the world. Nature offers consolation, and flowers and butterflies are the poet's interlocutors, but they too cannot escape ruin. Composed in Arabic and translated into English by the poet himself, Postcards from the Underworld is a searing meditation on the destruction of humans, habitats and homes.
  note: Sinan Antoon ; translated from the Arabic by the poet.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Antoon, Sinan
      name part: 1967-
    genre: Translations into English
  subject:
    topic: Arabic poetry
    temporal: 21st century
  classification: PJ7914.N88 P67 2023
  classification: 892.7/17
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Arab list
  identifier: 9781803092508
  identifier: 1803092505
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 230328
    record change date: 20241025161403.0
    record identifier: in00004762570