Desert Songs: Poetry by Yahia Lababidi

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Lababidi seems to have something other, and otherworldly, in mind. The poet crafts a mythic Egypt... a land abundant with connotation, fertile with image and nuance. Its mountains are an "imperishable memory of the desert/craniums exposed, crumbling horribly" and a "school of inscrutable sphinxes/master storytellers sworn to secrecy." The desert "is a cemetery/picking its teeth with bones."

Words are an imperfect tool with which the poet tries...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1838369961

ISBN13:9781838369965

Release Date:August 2022

Publisher:Rowayat

Length:40 Pages

Weight:0.16 lbs.

Dimensions:0.1" x 5.6" x 8.5"

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