Table of Contents

Every Insider Shall Hail Me and Every Outsider Too (1973)
Dinoka Breva, Come, Take a Gentle Stab (excerpt)
Union of Lineages

Pike (1980)
Dylana and Diram (excerpt)

With the Same Traps, with the Foxes that Ride the Winds (1982)
Fog Composed like a Gentleman
Revenge

The Recklessness of Sapphire (1996)
Ledgers of Plunder (excerpt)
Digression in an Abridged Context

Confrontations, Pacts, Troughs, and Others … (1997)
Plastics (excerpt)
Ran’s Farm

From Syria (2015)

From All the Doors (2017)

Lineages of Animal (2019)
Dog
Turtle
Flea
Fish
Homo Erectus

About the Author

Salim Barakat is a Kurdish-Syrian writer who has published dozens of novels and poetry anthologies. Raised in northern Syria, he lived in Beirut and Cyprus before settling in Sweden, where he lives today. Huda J. Fakhreddine is associate professor of Arabic literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a translator of Arabic poetry and the author of several scholarly books. Jayson Iwen is the author of several books. He is professor of writing and English literature at The University of Wisconsin–Superior.

Reviews

"Kurdish, reclusive, demanding, inventive to the point of miracle, prolific to the point of cataracts—in the republic of Arabic letters, Salim Barakat stands apart."
*4Columns*

“Barakat’s exceedingly resistant and exhilaratingly strange verse—paradoxically written by someone who seems absolutely rooted to the depths of the earth while yet able to see humanity as if through the mind of some other being, perhaps language itself—is finally available to English readers. One can only hope that Huda Fakhreddine and Jayson Iwen’s resounding translation summons greater interest in the work of this astonishing modern master.”
*Ammiel Alcalay, poet, scholar, critic, and translator*