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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A raw and unrestrained work of powerful and lyric fervor,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Without an Alphabet, Without a Face: Selected Poems (Paperback)
Without An Alphabet, Without A Face is a work of emotional poetry by Saadi Youssef, one of the Arab world's foremost poets, and is superbly translated into English by Khaled Mattawa. A raw and unrestrained work of powerful and lyric fervor, Without An Alphabet, Without A Face is enthusiastically recommended reading. On The Red Sea: We were not sailors/but the captain's captives,/the sweepers of his kitchen.../Sometimes he strolled/with his wolf dog/and we leapt in fright, terrified,/and fled to hide/in the corner of the stern./The ship traveled by night,/folded its sails in the morning/at African ports,/and the sailors walked/to taverns on the beach./As for us/we remained as we were/the captain's captives,/the sweepers of his kitchen...
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Prescient words for a world gone wrong,
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This review is from: Without an Alphabet, Without a Face: Selected Poems (Paperback)
I concur with the assessment of Midwest Book Review, and there is a veridical power in Yusuf's poetry. I look forward to more of his work being released in English.
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Without an Alphabet, Without a Face: Selected Poems by Sa?d? Y?suf (Paperback - December 30, 2002)
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