These Are Not Oranges, My Love - Iman Mersal (Author) - Khaled Mattawa (Translator)

ISBN: 1-931357-54-4

By: Iman Mersal

Translated by: Khaled Mattawa

Year of Publishing: 2008

Publisher: Sheep Meadow Press

Page Numbers: 87 Pages

Cover: Paperback

These Are Not Oranges, My Love is the selected poems of poet and intellectual, Iman Mersal as translated by Khaled Mattawa. Spanning about a decade’s work beginning in the mid­’90s (poems are collected from all but her debut book), These Are Not Oranges follows Mersal from the small town in Egypt where she was born and raised, to a journalism ca­reer in Cairo and eventually to Edmonton, where she is currently a professor at the University of Alberta.

"Mersal offers an exquisite daughter-to-father poem. Titled "The Clot," this sequence radiates with a combination of tenderness, humor and anguish unmatched in contemporary Arabic poetry."-From the Introduction by Khaled Mattawa