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Episode: Revolt Against the Sun
Description: Nazik al-Mala'ika was an Iraqi woman poet of great influence and renown through the 1940s, 50s and 60s. She pioneered new poetic forms and re-invented a heritage of feminine, emotional, elegiac poetry-making. We are joined by scholar and translator Emily Drumsta to discuss a new bilingual collection of al-Mala'ika's poetry, Revolt Against the Sun. The collection is coming out this month from Saqi Books in the UK and January 2021 in the US.We read from:βA Letter to Him,β from For Prayer and Revolution (1978)βCholera,β from Shrapnel and Ash (1949)βThe Moon Tree,β from The Moon Tre...