Let Me Tell You What I Saw: extracts from Uruk's Anthem by Adnan al Sayegh trans. By Jenny Lewis, Ruba Abughaida Danez Smith Ben Norris

Ben Norris

Like Eliot’s deep-rooted Modernism

 Baldwin’s Catholic Geese

verbal and psychological

"is the simple idea so hard to achieve

Let Me Tell You What I Saw: extracts from Uruk's Anthem by Adnan al Sayegh trans. By Jenny Lewis, Ruba Abughaida Danez Smith Ben NorrisLet Me Tell You What I Saw is the first ever publication as a dual language (English Arabic) text of substantial extracts from Adnan Al Sayeghs ground breaking epic poem, Uruks Anthem, one of the longest poems ever written in Arabic literature, which gives voice to the profound despair of the Iraqi experience. This superb translation by Jenny Lewis, Ruba Abughaida and others, brings the eloquent original Arabic epic to a new readership. Uruks Anthem