My Heart Became a Bomb

by Ramy Al-Asheq

My Heart Became a Bomb is the first collection of poetry by Syrian-Palestinian poet Ramy al-Asheq to be translated into English. Poignant and raw, these poems take the reader along a path of forced emigration from Bashar al-Assad's prisons in Syria to Amsterdam to Auschwitz to Berlin, Germany, where Al-Asheq is now creating a new home. By turns melancholy and reflective, celebratory and hopeful, Al-Asheq's newly translated poems offer the English-reading...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477322264
• ISBN13: 9781477322260
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies Ut-Austin
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"