01965nam 22004093 450 991015902510332120230810001736.0(CKB)3710000001014632(MiAaPQ)EBC6054009(Au-PeEL)EBL6054009(OCoLC)1156097922(BIP)58925852(EXLCZ)99371000000101463220210901d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierIn Praise of Defeat Poems by Abdellatif LaabiNew York :Steerforth Press,2017.©2017.1 online resource (411 pages)0-914671-60-X 0-914671-59-6 One of the central writers and thinkers in contemporary Maghreb letters and banned by the Moroccan government, Abdellatif Laabi's poetry is increasingly influential on the international scene and spans six decades of political and literary change, innovation, and struggle. Including a wide range of work, from piercing domestic love poetry to a fierce lyricism of social resistance informed by nearly a decade spent in prison for "crimes of opinion," all of Laabi's poetry is situated firmly against tyranny and for life--an almost mythic sense of spiritual and earthly joy emanates from this resistance through the darkness of political oppression. This selection of poetry has been masterfully rendered into English for the first time by Donald Nicholson-Smith and introduced by the eminent poet and critic Pierre Joris--the first in translation to be chosen by Laabi himself.841/.914841.914Laabi Abdellatif465049Nicholson-Smith Donald1247507MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910159025103321In Praise of Defeat2891917UNINA