Rising of the Ashes

Print: American Poetry Review, Bloomsbury Review, Kenyon Review, Paris Review, New Yorker, Brooklyn Rail, Two Lines, St. Marks Poetry Project Newsletter, World Literature Today, Al Jadid Magazine, Washington Post Book World, New York Times, Toronto Globe and Mail, Mizna Journal, Bidoun Magazine Online: WordsWithoutBorders.org, completereview.com, Moorishgirl.com Radio: KPFA's "Cover to Cover," "Morning Show", and "Voices of the Middle East," KSFR's "Poetry Talk," WGBH's "The World," KALW's "Your Call," CKUT's "Caravan" Book clubs: Washington Report on Middle East Affairs Academic: Modern Language Association, Associated Writers Program, MESA, Middle Eastern Studies Departments Events: The Levantine Center (LA), Skirball Cultural Center (LA), Arab Cultural Center (SF)

Two epic poems focus on the bitter consequences of war and violence in the Middle East.The violence of war is rendered immediate and vividly personal in this powerful book by one of North Africa's premier writers and intellectuals. The human devastation wrought upon Iraqis in the Gulf War and upon Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and the Occupied Territories is captured in a quietly unrelenting, essential act of remembering that balances lyricism with horror. Tahar Ben Jelloun, poet, novelist, and professor, was born and raised in Fez, Morocco, and has lived and worked in France since 1971. Winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1987, he is the author of numerous works of fiction, poetry, and critique.