Let Me Tell You What I Saw
al-Sayegh, Adnan / Lewis, Jenny / Abughaida, Ruba Uruk's Anthem' has been described as beautiful, powerful and courageous and at the same time apocalyptic and terrifying in its unwavering scrutiny of, and opposition to, oppression and dictatorship wherever it occurs in the world. Fusing ancient Arabic and Sumerian poetic traditions with many innovative and experimental features of both Arabic and Western literature, Uruk's Anthem might best be described as a modernist dream poem that frequent...