Trying Again to Stop Time: Selected Poems

by Jalal Barzanji

"It's a losing battle:
my words have no chance against time.
Sometimes,
unable to catch up with imagination,
I leave the battle, candle in hand,
in complete darkness."

-- from "Trying Again to Stop Time"

Jalal Barzanji chronicles the path of exile and estrangement from his beloved native Kurdistan to his chosen home in Canada. His poems speak of the tension that exists between the place of one's birth and an adoptive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 177212043X
• ISBN13: 9781772120431
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up