The Book of Trivialities Helen Beer

The Book of Trivialities Helen BeerThe Book of Trivialities, originally written in the poets native Arabic, is beautifully rendered into English by award winning translator Kareem James Abu Zeid. Intricately fusing political and personal histories, these powerful lyric verses speak to the universal, undying quest for freedom that knows no borders or bounds. A profound, powerful sequence of verse from a poet who once lived through the heart of a revolution and now lives for the

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The turn of the 20th century was a tumultuous time for the city

the secret tastes and sounds of the everyday are waiting to be found

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flamenco dancer mother

he meditates on the apple tree: ‘crouched down as if something brutal had happened / for the sweetness to come’

however hard

Three decades later

when God tells him he's a good cat

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to the narrator’s own native district in Melbourne County