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Selected Poems

By: Farhad Pirbal, Shook (Translator), Pshtiwan Babakr (Translator)

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Paperback | 9 July 2024

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A collection of poetry from acclaimed yet underrepresented Kurdish poet Farhad Pirbal.

Like that of his contemporary Abdulla Pashew, Farhad Pirbal''s poetry is a chronicle of exile and displacement, longing and not belonging. The poetry is in turns wistful and disoriented,reflecting his role as a dissident and persecuted prisoner. "Poète maudit" of Kurdistan, Pirbal is known as well for his highly publicized antics as for his prolific literary output. Pirbal, born in 1961, “may be the greatest innovator of Kurdish literature in the twentieth century, in both poetry and prose” (Shook, Poetry Foundation).

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A World Literature Today Notable Translation of 2024

"Pirbal's poems, often restless and peripatetic, are concerned with immigration, exile, and belonging. Though the route of an exile is often imagined as isolated and singular, Pirbal writes to preserve a kind of collective memorial archive of immigrants, and there is a sense throughout of the shadows of all immigrants, past, present, and future, passing through these poems." -Poetry Foundation

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