Al-Mutanabbi street starts here by Beausoleil, Beau, 1941-; Shehabi, Deema K instant download

Al-Mutanabbi street starts here by Beausoleil, Beau, 1941-; Shehabi, Deema K instant download

xiv, 290 p. ; 23 cm, On March 5th, 2007, a car bomb was exploded on al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad -- the historic center of Baghdad bookselling -- wounding more than 100 people and killing more than 30. This anthology begins with a historical introduction to al-Mutanabbi Street and includes the writing of Iraqis as well as a wide swath of international poets and writers who were outraged by this attack. Exploring the question Where does al-Mutanabbi Street start?, the book looks at both communities and nations, seeking to show the commonality between a small street in Baghdad and other individual cultural centers, Includes bibliographical references, I. The river turned black with ink. The Bookseller's Story, Ending Much Too Soon / Anthony Shadid -- A Man in Love with Knowledge / Mousa al-Naseri -- For al-Mutanabbi Street / Naomi Shihab Nye -- The Last Word / Deena Metzger -- The Grief of Birds / Sam Hamod -- Al-Mutanabbi Street / Lutfiya al-Dulaimi -- Occident to Orient / Zaid Shlah -- Ways to Count the Dead / Persis M. Karim -- Al-Mutanabbi Street / Ayub Nuri -- Qasida, My Father Spoke at Funerals, Ways to Raise the Dead / Marian Haddad -- Girls in Red on Page One / Sarah Browning -- Al-Mutanabbi Street / Eileen Grace O'Malley Callahan -- Abridged Qasida for al-Mutanabbi Street / Roger Sedarat -- Al-Mutanabbi Street / Elline Lipkin -- Fragment, in Praise of the Book / Meena Alexander -- An Ordinary Bookseller / Esther Kamkar -- What Prayer / Robert Perry -- Marianne Moore in Baghdad / Gloria Collins -- The al-Mutanabbi Street Bombing / Brian Turner -- In Perpetuity / Gloria Frym -- Against the Weather (for al-Mutanabbi Street) / Owen Hill -- Dead Trees / Yassin \"The Narcicyst\" Alsalman -- Elegy for al-Mutanabbi Street / José Luis Gutiérrez -- The Letter Has Arrived / Sargon Boulus -- Al-Mutanabbi Street / Peter Money -- Voices Surround & Fade: The Hooded One / Peter Money -- A Letter to al-Mutanabbi / Sinan Antoon -- Escape from al-Mutanabbi Street /…