Come, Take a Gentle Stab: Selected Poems by Salim Barakat

Come, Take a Gentle Stab: Selected Poems

Salim Barakat with Jason Iwen (Translator), Huda Fakhreddine (Translator)

132 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction poetry challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
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A Kurdish-Syrian man, Barakat chose to write in Arabic, the language of cultural and political hegemony that has marginalized his people. Like Paul Celan, he mastered the language of the oppressor to such an extent that the course of the language ...

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