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Beyond the Barbed WireSelected PoemsAbdellatif LaabiEdited by André Naffis-SahelyTranslated by André Naffis-Sahely
Categories: 20th Century, 21st Century, African, Arabic, French, Translation
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (168 pages) (Pub. Jul 2016) 9781784100520 £9.99 £8.99 eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. Jun 2016) 9781784100537 £7.99 £7.19 To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have and are not prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions.
‘to endure the lacerations
and to resist to translate humiliation and pain into their literal opposites and inside this lead-sealed arena where they condemned me to shuffle for ten whole years I have started to dig entire tunnels and underground passages even into my veins’ Finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature 2020 Winner of an English PEN Award Introduced by Jim Moore, with an interview by Christopher Schaefer
Awards won by Abdellatif Laabi
Short-listed, 2020 The Neustadt International Prize for Literature (Beyond the Barbed Wire)
'The themes of his activism explode throughout the work and the reader watches the fireworks of emotion, feeling conflicted with moments of utopic joy followed by utter devastation. Beyond the Barbed Wire does more than make Laabi's work accessible to an English readership.'
Wasafiri Magazine 'The poetry we encounter in this volume is popular and public, a poetry of eloquence and pathos, sometimes fierce, something exalted.' D. M De Silva, Poetry Salzberg 'While it is clear that an inner, creative imperative makes him write, the particular circumstances and passions that move him make him regard writing as part of a political struggle. The 'I' in his poems is no formal lyric ego but a presence, something menacing, a power to be reckoned with.' D. M De Silva, Poetry Salzberg 'Shame, defiance, mockery, fear and solidarity come through like battle cries of love, and the reader cannot help but take up the song.' Wasafiri Magazine 'When it comes to 'raising a song of possibilities above the dirge of cruelty', Laâbi is still without rival.' Stacy Hardy, The Chimurenga Chronic 'Laâbi's finest poems are virtuosic performances, turning political crises into poetic occasions and combining a flair for self-dramatization with stunning verbal inventiveness.' Robyn Creswell, Harpers Magazine 'These extraordinary, energetic poems, which grab the reader by the throat both linguistically and morally, are about the power of language itself.' Sue Hubbard, Poetry London |
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