Let Me Tell You What I Saw: extracts from Uruk's Anthem by Adnan al Sayegh trans. By Jenny Lewis, Ruba Abughaida Greg Gilbert and displays a virtuosic range

and displays a virtuosic range of form and address

she reconfigures Greek myth from a Feminist perspective to address today's inequalities The poems range across the violent geography of Palestine and Iraq to the bright landscapes of the American Southwest

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Let Me Tell You What I Saw: extracts from Uruk's Anthem by Adnan al Sayegh trans. By Jenny Lewis, Ruba Abughaida Greg Gilbert and displays a virtuosic rangeLet Me Tell You What I Saw is the first ever publication as a dual language (English Arabic) text of substantial extracts from Adnan Al Sayeghs ground breaking epic poem, Uruks Anthem, one of the longest poems ever written in Arabic literature, which gives voice to the profound despair of the Iraqi experience. This superb translation by Jenny Lewis, Ruba Abughaida and others, brings the eloquent original Arabic epic to a new readership. Uruks Anthem