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Beyond the Barbed Wire: Selected Poems
Abdellatif Laabi
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Description for Beyond the Barbed Wire: Selected Poems
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Beyond the Barbed Wire is a selection of work by Morocco's greatest living poet. Abdellatif Laabi's poetry and literary activism has inspired a generation of writers and thinkers, and it resulted in his decade-long imprisonment. This volume gives a career-spanning overview of Laabi's poetry, from the late 1960s to the 2010s. It includes a generous selection of the prison-writings of the 1970s, poems that speak from 'beyond the borders of what is human', as the poet writes, a hinterland of physical and emotional torture, in which hunger strikes are 'the only weapon we've left'. Among these is a poem addressed ... Read more
Beyond the Barbed Wire is a selection of work by Morocco's greatest living poet. Abdellatif Laabi's poetry and literary activism has inspired a generation of writers and thinkers, and it resulted in his decade-long imprisonment. This volume gives a career-spanning overview of Laabi's poetry, from the late 1960s to the 2010s. It includes a generous selection of the prison-writings of the 1970s, poems that speak from 'beyond the borders of what is human', as the poet writes, a hinterland of physical and emotional torture, in which hunger strikes are 'the only weapon we've left'. Among these is a poem addressed ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784100520
SKU
V9781784100520
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About Abdellatif Laabi
ABDELLATIF LAABI was born in Fez, Morocco, in 1942. In 1966 he founded Souffles, a radical journal. He was imprisoned from 1972 to 1980 for his activism against the regime of Hassan II. He moved to France in 1985 and received the Prix Goncourt de la Poesie in 2009 and the Academie francaise's Grand prix de la Francophonie in 2011. ... Read more
Reviews for Beyond the Barbed Wire: Selected Poems
'Laabi's rhythm and flow come through in these incantatory verses of struggle and love for a reimagined land.' - World Literature Today