Proximal Moroccoâ "

by Mohammed Khair-Eddine

A collection of visceral, anti-colonial poetry from the Maghreb region of North Africa that is as indebted to Surrealism as it is to Negritude.

Originally published in 1975, PROXIMAL MOROCCO-- is a collection of poems by Mohammed Kha r-Eddine written in fits and starts during a span of 10 years (1964-1974), during the fever pitch of his political exile from his homeland of Morocco which he fled, partly for fear of political persecution and partly to pursue a literary career in Paris, France. Laced with the same politically-inflected Surrealistic fervor as Aim C saire, the book is at once a powerful outcry to fellow artists for international solidarity of the colonized and outcast and a documentation of the pain and struggle of exile.

"Mohammed Kha r-Eddine is a poetic force, and Jake Syersak's unrelenting, uncompromising translation brings one of his most alive books crashing into English 'in the likeness of thunder.'"--Emma Ramadan

Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Translation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1946604089
• ISBN13: 9781946604088
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Ugly Duckling Presse
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 7.8"