The world's embrace : selected poems / Abdellatif Laâbi ; edited, with an introduction by Victor Reinking ; foreword by Ammiel Alcalay ; translations by Anne George ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laâbi, Abdellatif, 1942-

Contributor:

Reinking, Victor W.

George, Anne O.

Standardized Title:

Poems. English. Selections

Language:

English

French

Physical Description:

xviii, 166 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : City Lights Books, [2003]

Language Note:

Parallel text in English and French.

Summary:

Compelling poems from one of the most prolific and critically acclaimed of contemporary North African writers. Imprisoned for many years by the Moroccan authorities, Laabi's poetry is haunted by memories of torture and prisons and bears witness to his preoccupations with -- and resistance to -- the growing international sickness of state-supported inhumanity.

Abdellatif Laabi was born in 1942 in Fez. In 1966, he founded the avant-garde literary and artistic journal "Souffles," which helped spark a literary and artistic renaissance through North Africa. Imprisoned for seven years in the '70s for his political beliefs and his writings, he has lived in Paris since 1985. His latest book, a novel, will be published this year by Gallimard.

ISBN:

0872864138

OCLC:

50677022