On the Thresholds of Temples

by Khazal Almajidi, خزعل الماجدي, Soheil Najm (translator)

On the Thresholds of Temples is collection of poems, written in Arabic by Iraqi poet Khazal Almajidi, and translated to English by Soheil Najm. Dan Veach, the editor of the international poetry journal Atlanta Review, wrote on the back cover of this book: (Those who make a distinction between personal and political poetry should look to Iraq, and to poets like Khazal Almajidi. For here the personal, the social and the political are fused in the fires of conflict and creative passion. Good-humored, playful, erotic, yet deeply committed to justice and humanity-here we find the full spectrum of the man and the poet, speaking for himself and for his nation).

Khazal Almajidi, is a poet, playwriter, and critic, from Iraq. He issued many volumes of poetry and drama, in Arabic, such as: Isolation in Chrystal, The Diamond Party, Hamlet without Hamlet, The Wake of Delmon, Songs of Israfil, Anti Physics, Hamnet and Sorrows of the Iraqi Year.

62 pages, Paperback

First published February 16, 2014