The Dance of the Fig Tree I.P. Taylor

The Dance of the Fig Tree I.P. TaylorThree generations of women: Tta, the grandmother, Fadwa, the mother, and Emn, the daughter who captures the tenderness of her fore bearers. The poems in this collection recall and restore a family lineage broken by war, death and exile. This translation of the 2021 mile Nelligan Prize winning collection will attract readers interested in Middle Eastern literatures and those who value poetry written with the urgency of survival, memory, and longing.

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