Postcards from the Underworld Het Voorland What your / kin says

What your / kin says is power

'geef mij heden mijn dagelijks brood en een nooduitgang'

The book is a narrative of becoming in the wartime petroleum landscape of southern Louisiana

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Postcards from the Underworld Het Voorland What your / kin saysSinan Antoon To confront time, pre modern Arabic poems often began with the poet standing before the ruins, real and imagined, of a beloveds home. In Postcards from the Underworld, Sinan Antoon works in that tradition, observing the detritus of his home city, Baghdad, where he survived two warsthe Iran Iraq War of 1980 and the First Gulf War of 1991and which, after he left, he watched from afar being attacked during the US invasion in 2003. Antoons