Dictionary of Midnight - Softcover

Pashew, Abdulla

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1944700803 ISBN 13: 9781944700805

Verlag: Phoneme Media, 2018

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With a foreword by National Book Award-winning author William T. Vollmann

Dictionary of Midnight collects almost 50 years of poetry by Abdulla Pashew, the most influential Kurdish poet alive today. Pashew's poems chart a personal cartography of exile, recounting the recent political history of Kurdistan and its struggle for independence. Poet-translator Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse worked with the poet to select and translate his most iconic poems, balancing well-known, politically engaged contemporary Kurdish classics like "12 Lessons for Children" with the concise love lyrics that have always punctuated his work.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

When he gives readings in Kurdistan, Abdulla Pashew draws audiences in the thousands. In addition to his eight volumes of poetry, Pashew is a prolific translator, fluent in Russian and English, responsible for bringing Whitman and Pushkin to Kurdish readership. He holds a master's degree in pedagogy and a doctorate in philology. DICTIONARY OF MIDNIGHT is the first book-length selection of his poetry to appear in English.

Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse is a poet, translator, and co-director of Kashkul, a research, translation, and arts collaborative. She has lived and worked in Iraq since 2011, during which time she has dedicated herself to bringing Kurdish poets to English-speaking audiences, including Kajal Ahmad's HANDFUL OF SALT. Her poems, translations, and essays have appeared in The Iowa Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, The Sewanee Review, and World Literature Today, among others.

William T. Vollmann is the National Book Award-winning author of nonfiction, short stories, and novels, including Europe Central.

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A Match

The news agencies have announced
a soccer match.
The teams: the Kremlin and the White House.
The ball: the skull of a Kurd.
The goal: Kurdistan.
The spectators: the world, silent as the grave.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Phoneme Media
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1944700803
• ISBN 13: 9781944700805
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 385
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