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Trying Again to Stop Time

- Selected Poems
Af: Jalal Barzanji Engelsk Paperback

Trying Again to Stop Time

- Selected Poems
Af: Jalal Barzanji Engelsk Paperback
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“It’s a losing battle:my words have no chance against time.Sometimes,unable to catch up with imagination,I leave the battle, candle in hand,in complete darkness.”— from “Trying Again to Stop Time"Jalal Barzanji chronicles the path of exile and estrangement from his beloved native Kurdistan to his chosen home in Canada. His poems speak of the tension that exists between the place of one’s birth and an adoptive land, of that delicate dance that happens in the face of censorship and oppression. In defiance of Saddam Hussein’s call for sycophantic political verse, he turns to the natural world to reference a mournful state of loss, longing, alienation, and melancholy. Barzanji’s poetry is infused with the richness of the Middle East, but underlying it all is a close affinity to Western Modernists. In those moments where language and culture collide and co-operate, Barzanji carves out a strong voice of opposition to political oppression. Readers will return to his work again and again, just as viewers return to a favourite painting. “Like contemporary poets Taslima Nasrin, Adonis, Yehuda Amichai, and Shuntaro Tanikawa, Barzanji’s is a voice in which the native willingly mutates into the global.”— Sabah A. Salih, Translator
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“It’s a losing battle:my words have no chance against time.Sometimes,unable to catch up with imagination,I leave the battle, candle in hand,in complete darkness.”— from “Trying Again to Stop Time"Jalal Barzanji chronicles the path of exile and estrangement from his beloved native Kurdistan to his chosen home in Canada. His poems speak of the tension that exists between the place of one’s birth and an adoptive land, of that delicate dance that happens in the face of censorship and oppression. In defiance of Saddam Hussein’s call for sycophantic political verse, he turns to the natural world to reference a mournful state of loss, longing, alienation, and melancholy. Barzanji’s poetry is infused with the richness of the Middle East, but underlying it all is a close affinity to Western Modernists. In those moments where language and culture collide and co-operate, Barzanji carves out a strong voice of opposition to political oppression. Readers will return to his work again and again, just as viewers return to a favourite painting. “Like contemporary poets Taslima Nasrin, Adonis, Yehuda Amichai, and Shuntaro Tanikawa, Barzanji’s is a voice in which the native willingly mutates into the global.”— Sabah A. Salih, Translator
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 148
ISBN-13: 9781772120431
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 177212043X
Kategori: Lyrik af en forfatter
Udg. Dato: 18 feb 2015
Længde: 15mm
Bredde: 135mm
Højde: 230mm
Forlag: University of Alberta Press
Oplagsdato: 18 feb 2015
Forfatter(e): Jalal Barzanji
Forfatter(e) Jalal Barzanji

Kategori Lyrik af en forfatter

ISBN-13 9781772120431

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 148

Udgave

Længde 15mm

Bredde 135mm

Højde 230mm

Udg. Dato 18 feb 2015

Oplagsdato 18 feb 2015

Forlag University of Alberta Press