The introduction by Maghreb scholar Victor Reinking and preface by fellow poet Breyten Breytenbach help readers to understand the book in its own time, as well as in the wider context of Middle Eastern narrative and universal traditions of prison meditation.

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"This intense prose poem often attains a hallucinatory fervor"
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