Postcards from the Underworld: Poems

by Sinan Antoon

A chilling poetic reflection on the world we have inherited and the destructions that made it.

To confront time, pre-modern Arabic poems often began with the poet standing before the ruins, real and imagined, of a beloved's home. In Postcards from the Underworld, Sinan Antoon works in that tradition, observing the detritus of his home city, Baghdad, where he survived two wars--the Iran-Iraq War of 1980 and the First Gulf War...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1803092505
• ISBN13: 9781803092508
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"