Hagar Before the Occupation / Hagar After the Occupation (Alice James Books Translation) (English and Arabic Edition)

182 sayfa. 1x1 cm
"Through these poems, Amal al-Jubouri connects us to the earliest known poems, and yet the dialectic tension between them is utterly contemporary. Al-Jubouri writes 'This is my protest, this is my folly,' yet these poems are neither simple protest nor in any sense folly. These poems are both essential and eternal."—Nick Flynn

This translation of Iraqi author Amal al-Jubouri contextualizes America's occupation of Iraq through the Qur'an's story of Hagar. Complementary pairs of poems portray life before and after the war. This work simultaneously mirrors Hagar's desperate running between Safa and Marwah, as we pace frantically between pre- and post-occupation Iraq—the poet begging in vain for poetry not to abandon her people.

Honor before the occupation

Worship the Leader
Love the Party
Curse America, the siege

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Honor after the occupation

Curse the Dictator
Forsake the Party
Clap with flowers in your hand for America, her wall

Amal al-Jubouri, a native of Iraq,

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