Soheil Najm

Baghdad

Soheil NAJM (poet; Iraq) has published four books of poetry, [Breaking the Phrase] (1994), [Your Carpenter O Light] (2002), [No Paradise Outside the Window] (2008), and the anthology Flowers in Flame (2008). In addition, he has translated selections of work by Nikos Kazantzakis, Alasdair Gray, Ted Hughes, and José Saramago. Najm is currently the editor of the Althaqafa Alajnabia [Foreign Culture] journal in Baghdad.

Author's Gallery:

Seven Attempts to Portray Mr. President 1 He is alone in the hall, red cup in hand, feather hat on head. Through the window one can see scattered corpses, knocked down trees and a handful of rabid dogs wandering... media_text	A Sparrow Rubbed by a Flute (عصفور مدعوك بالناي) It comes to me That I may see what is unseen In the pleasure of speech, In the night step And in the crawling of roses on myrtle. It comes to me That I may cross the sea of... media_text	The Word and the Bullet The relationship between the word and the bullet is a complicated and tense one, or rather one of rivalry. Both of them compete for sovereignty over man's life. Unlike the other creatures, man has the privilege of... media_text
Interview with Soheil Najm [Interview performed by Farideh Hassanzadeh] "The Iraqi roses (poems) flourish today every where in the world." "Being very abstract, brief and digested poetry could not depict these horrible deeds."... media_text	Al-Bab Asharqi (Baghdad Downtown) 1. Alleys A gate for the distant place and death. 2. …............ ….................. …........................ With our bloody coats we will bring down the city where the... media_text	Images Images …images these are just images, old images, new images, images of youth, images of old age, images of the open life in spite of the ferocity of bullets, images of the... media_text
No Paradise outside the Window He is busy with his scattered papers. The muzzle of the old pistol is looking at him in provocation. Poetry is the noblest thing in language, and the whiteness of the papers is death. They... media_text	Translation as Creative Writing Translation has a very long history, particularly in Iraq, where it has been practiced for thousands of years. Archeologists have found translations in many languages of the epic of Gilgamesh and the code of... media_text

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