Perishable poems
Subtitle: Poèmes périssables
By: Abdellatif Laâbi ; translated by Peter Thompson
Contributors: Thompson, Peter, translator; Laâbi, Abdellatif, 1942-; Laâbi, Abdellatif, 1942-
Publisher: Diálogos Books
Published: 2019
Place of publication: New Orleans
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9781944884680
Copyright date: 2019
Other titles: Poèmes périssables
Description: Perishable Poems is a quiet volume, less suggestive and startling than receptive, like a fifty-eight year old man's reevaluation of life. These poems gently question the yield of disparate episodes in a long life, and of experiences more harrowing than most of us can understand. It has now been thirty-six years since Laâbi's release from prison, but the passions or that memory and the disappointments of Arab Spring still shine a light both human and harsh on authoritarianism, and on the life that flowers again after the cruelest repression.
Notes: Original French texts with English translations on facing pages.