| | Without an Alphabet, Without a Face Selected Poems by Saadi Youssef, Khaled Mattawa, Saʻdī Yūsuf Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2002 by Graywolf Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-371-1, ISBN: 1-55597-371-X
"This Iraq will reach the ends of the graveyard.It will bury its sons in open countrygeneration after generation,and it will forgive its despot...It will not be the Iraq that once held the name.—from "A Vision"Living his life in exile—a series of forced departures from numerous countries—Iraqi poet Saadi Youssef also writes outside the long-standing forms of traditional Arabic poetry. In the words of Salma Khadra, a critic of Arabic poet ..."
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