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Aicha Bassry<\/a><\/h1>\n

With Urgency: A Selection of Poems<\/h2>\n

Translated by Mbarek Sryfi<\/a> and Eric Sellin<\/a><\/h3>\n

ISBN: 978-1-944884-95-6 (pbk.)<\/p>\n

(November 1, 2021)<\/p>\n

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In this brief collection by one of Morocco\u2019s most beloved and respected poets, Aicha Bassry, translated and selected by Mbark Sryfi and Eric Sellin, English-speaking readers will find accessible, deceptively simple portraits and snapshots that upon closer reading reveal a depth of emotion and vision that is both psychologically and politically compelling.<\/p>\n

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Aicha Bassry takes us on a journey\u00a0of the heart, mapped in deceptively simple language grounded in elemental imagery and sensuous metaphors. The words on the page are also incantation and exorcism, \u201cvotive offerings on cold nights,\u201d the last rampart against fear and alienation.
\n\u2014H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Stafford, Oxford University<\/p>\n

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This is a seductively lyrical poetry opening from an\u00a0atlal<\/i>, a ruin, of loss, yet always aware of its means, & able to turn these back on the reader, because, as Aicha Bassry knows, seduction is the \u201cjutting rock [that]\/ Gashed the whiteness\/ Of the leg that lusted after\/ Its own image in the water.\u201d
\n\u2014Pierre Joris<\/a>, author of\u00a0Barzakh<\/i><\/p>\n

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Aicha Bassry is a deep singer who takes you by her soul-crafted words to startling realms of experience you hardly thought possible. Her work is ageless and of our now. Bassry encounters life, the seasons, lost love, death. At one point her scarf is taken by the wind and lands on a grave in Montparnasse Cemetery, and Death apologizes that he wasn\u2019t looking for her: \u201cI was searching for one of my corpses\/ Which I had buried inside you.\u201d This artfully resonant translation is attentive to Bassry\u2019s formal acrobatics, the subtle twists and surprises of her evocations. \u201cFall is a moment,\u201d she utters, \u201cthat sneaks between\/ The greenness and a withering drought\/ without apologizing to the tree.\u201d Death, life, trees, a butterfly, become moments of breathless encounter, and we are irresistibly swept up as readers in these sparkling intense states of \u201cin-between.\u201d
\n\u2014Sarah Riggs, author of Eavesdrop<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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