ARC AND SEAM: POEMS BY FAROUK GOWEDA Translated by Walid Abdallah and Andy Fogle

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ARC AND SEAM: POEMS

BY FAROUK GOWEDA

Translated by Walid Abdallah and Andy Fogle

$14.99, paper

978-1-64662-915-2

2022

Farouk Goweda is a bestselling Egyptian poet, journalist, and playwright whose nearly 50 books have been widely influential in the Middle East. His work has been translated into English, French, Spanish, Chinese and Persian, and he has been awarded several national and international prizes.

Walid Abdallah is an Egyptian poet and author whose books include Shout of Silence, Escape to the Realm of Imagination, My Heart-Oasis, and Male Domination and Female Emancipation. He has been a visiting professor of English language and literature in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Germany and the United States. His prize-winning co-translations with Andy Fogle of Farouk Goweda’s poetry have previously appeared in ANMLY, Image, RHINO, Reunion: Dallas Review, and Los Angeles Review.

Andy Fogle has six chapbooks of poetry and a full-length called Across from Now (Grayson Books). Along with his co-translations with Walid Abdallah, his poetry, collages, and a variety of nonfiction have appeared in Blackbird, Best New Poets 2018, Gargoyle, Parks and Points, Right Hand Pointing, and elsewhere. His music can be found at fogle.bandcamp.com. He lives in upstate NY, teaching high school and working on a PhD in Education.