The Promised Land : Poems from Itinerant Life
The Promised Land : Poems from Itinerant Life
Author: Naffis-Sahely, Andre
Poetry by individual poets
Published on 3 August 2017 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom.
Paperback / softback | 80 pages
196 x 127 x 6 | 82g
While half the world swept west,we trickled eastward, one by one,single-file, like fugitives. Next stop:Abu Dhabi, where my father had a job,and money, for the first time in years . . .
Flitting from the mud-soaked floors of Venice to the glittering, towering constructions of the Abu Dhabi of his childhood and early adulthood, from present-day London to North America, André Naffis-Sahely's bracingly plain-spoken first collection gathers portraits of promised lands and those who go in search of them: labourers, travellers, dreamers; the hopeful and the dispossessed. 'Naffis-Sahely's poems usher the reader in to a world of reversals and risk . . . His narratives hold memory to account'DAVID HARSENT
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