Except for This Unseen Thread Autobiography of Red bringing together for the first

bringing together for the first time all the poems of his seven collections as well as some of the unpublished material that had come to light since his death in 1986

that changed everything

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De Karel van de Woestijneprijs en de Grote Poëzie Prijs

I long for a full stop

Except for This Unseen Thread Autobiography of Red bringing together for the firstRa'ad Abdulqadir (trans. Mona Kareem) Published in Baghdad in 2006, Falcon with Sun Overhead and The Age of Entertainment inspired a new generation of Iraqi poets, charmed by Raads ability to write tender poems in times of destruction and fury. While many of his peers were writing poems about battlefields and faraway exiles, Raad was looking closer in, at the loneliness of those left behind. Hailed for its cinematic portrait of Iraq under sanctionsthe