Lightly rubbed. 2003 Trade Paperback. 130 pp. This collection features poems from Al-Azzawi's six previous Arabic poetry collections and many new poems. Springing from classical Arabic poetry, his poems speak to political exile, cultural marginalization, and Middle Eastern and Western histories and mythologies. Al-Azzawi employs humor, melancholy and tenderness to celebrate new worlds of possibility. Fadhil Al-Azzawi was born in 1940 in Kirkuk, Iraq. By the time he was fifteen, he was publishing poems in the leading Arab literary magazines in Beirut and Baghdad. Al-Azzawi currently lives in London. Khaled Mattawa (Translator) is the author of a collection of poetry, Ismailia Eclipse, and the translator of two books of contemporary Arabic poetry, Hatif Janabi's Questions and Their Retinue and Saddi Youssef's Without an Alphabet, Without a Face.

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