Postcards from the Underworld Jena Osman ” he peers into the

” he peers into the ruins—left by the winds of colonialism

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' – Alexis Pauline Gumbs

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In this new edition--with a deep and enlightening afterword by David Brazil--Whalen's poem is further cemented as a fundamental work in American literary history

Postcards from the Underworld Jena Osman ” he peers into theSinan Antoon To confront time, pre modern Arabic poems often began with the poet standing before the ruins, real and imagined, of a beloveds home. In Postcards from the Underworld, Sinan Antoon works in that tradition, observing the detritus of his home city, Baghdad, where he survived two warsthe Iran Iraq War of 1980 and the First Gulf War of 1991and which, after he left, he watched from afar being attacked during the US invasion in 2003. Antoons