The Arab List
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The Arab List

Poems

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The Arab List

Poems

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A chilling poetic reflection on the world we have inherited and the destructions that made it.
 
To confront time, pre-modern Arabic poems often began with the poet standing before the ruins, real and imagined, of a beloved's home. In Postcards from the Underworld, Sinan Antoon works in that tradition, observing the detritus of his home city, Baghdad, where he survived two wars—the Iran-Iraq War of 1980 and the First Gulf War of 1991—and which, after he left, he watched from afar being attacked during the US invasion in 2003.  Antoon's poems confront violence and force us not to look away as he traces death's haunting presence in the world. Nature offers consolation, and flowers and butterflies are the poet's interlocutors, but they too cannot escape ruin. Composed in Arabic and translated into English by the poet himself, Postcards from the Underworld is a searing meditation on the destruction of humans, habitats, and homes.

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Publisher
Seagull Books
Year
2023
ISBN
9781803092515
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Antoon’s Copyright page
  2. Postcards from the Underworld
  3. Prayer
  4. Psalm
  5. The Day
  6. The New God
  7. From the Lost Gospels
  8. From Eve’s Confessions
  9. Divine Failure
  10. I Hear It
  11. Blind Song
  12. The Saz Player
  13. Garment
  14. A Heavy Heart
  15. Visitation
  16. In My Next Life
  17. A Feather
  18. Autumn in Heaven
  19. Train of the Dead
  20. Interval
  21. Murmur
  22. Black Butterfly
  23. Birth Certificate
  24. Another Day
  25. Rest Your Horns
  26. The Poet
  27. Slow Mail
  28. Days Like This
  29. Dismemberment
  30. A Head
  31. Afterwords
  32. An Ordinary Day
  33. Letter to al-Mutanabbi
  34. A Photograph
  35. One Night; In Many Cities
  36. Heard on New Year’s Eve
  37. A Handbag in China Town
  38. A Butterfly in New York
  39. Winesong
  40. I Don’t Visit My Mother
  41. Angels on My Ceiling
  42. Angelus Novus
  43. An Alternative History
  44. Crossing
  45. Phosphorus
  46. Crazy Horse
  47. Anamorphosis / Iraq
  48. We Shall Wait
  49. Letter to My Ancestor
  50. The Angel’s Trumpet
  51. The Day’s Catch
  52. This Was Not Written
  53. A Postcard from the Underworld
  54. Nostalgia for Light
  55. A New Sun
  56. Psalm
  57. Scene
  58. Wars
  59. A Prisoner’s Song
  60. To an Iraqi Infant
  61. A Prism; Wet with Wars
  62. Delving
  63. Phantasmagoria I
  64. Phantasmagoria II
  65. Sifting
  66. The Milky Way
  67. Wrinkles on the Wind’s Forehead
  68. Strings
  69. A Sign
  70. From the Diary of a Ghost
  71. Just Another Evening (in black & you)
  72. Absence
  73. Afterword
  74. Sources