Contents
Introduction by Jim Moore
From THE REIGN OF BARBARISM (1976)
The Eye of the Talisman
Glory to Our Executioners
Urgent Life
From THE POEM BENEATH THE GAG (1981)
Chronicles from the Citadel of Exile
Prison Cell
Death
The Stroll
Hunger Strike
The Policeman’s Speech
Four Years
Freedom
To My Son Yacine
Letter to My Friends Overseas
From THE WORLD’S EMBRACE (1993)
Crumblings
Dreams Come to Die on the Page
There’s a Cannibal Who Reads Me
I’m a Child of This Century
My Mother’s Language
One Hand Isn’t Enough to Write
The Wolves
In Vain I Migrate
Two Hours on a Train
Manuscript
I’ve Just Returned from the Sea
Burn the Midnight Oil
The Elegant Sufi
The Word-Gulag
The Poem-Tree
Life
From WRITE LIFE (2005)
Far from Baghdad
The Earth Opens and Welcomes You
Dish of the Day
False Expectations
Fingerprints
From ANOTHER MOROCCO (2013)
The Day Hassan II Died 141
INTERVIEW
Interview with Laâbi by Christopher Schaefer
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Acknowledgements
Index of Titles