Ruins and Other Poems Agustin Fernandez Mallo translation Luc Sante

translation Luc Sante

maar heeft meer affiniteit met familiale bendes als de Soprano’s of de Peaky Blinders

the book explores the nature of the self

singling out its most distinctive and influential works

Ruins and Other Poems Agustin Fernandez Mallo translation Luc SanteSamer Abu Hawwash In these poems, Samer Abu Hawwash stands upon ancient and modern ruins, engaging with the archetypal Arabic qasida and its echoes in the present, set against a backdrop of exile, displacement, and genocide. The site of the ruin, the journey, and the return home are the three movements of the archetypal Arabic form with which Samer contends in his book length poem. Writing in and from the moment of crisis, the poet keeps returning to