Postcards from the Underworld Alara Adilow orienting to the desk

orienting to the desk

Originally published in 1973 by poet and translator David Rosenberg in The Ant's Forefoot chapbook series

hoogst actueel en tegelijk tijdloos

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge & Kiki Smith

Postcards from the Underworld Alara Adilow orienting to the deskSinan Antoon To confront time, pre modern Arabic poems often began with the poet standing before the ruins, real and imagined, of a beloveds home. In Postcards from the Underworld, Sinan Antoon works in that tradition, observing the detritus of his home city, Baghdad, where he survived two warsthe Iran Iraq War of 1980 and the First Gulf War of 1991and which, after he left, he watched from afar being attacked during the US invasion in 2003. Antoons