My Mother's Language by Abdellatif Laâbi, trans. By André Naffis-Sahely William Plomer drawing on the authors experience

drawing on the authors experience as a street musician

and that Martin Luther King could well be speaking right here

Acknowledging that the beautiful view and decluttered house depend on the dump

This makes for unusually clear and accessible work

My Mother's Language by Abdellatif Laâbi, trans. By André Naffis-Sahely William Plomer drawing on the authors experienceAbdellatif Labi is widely acknowledged to be Morocco's greatest living poet. For the last fifty years, he has produced works of unique philosophical and emotional insight that have been guided above all by a commitment to say what needed to be said. In 1972 this led to his arrest, torture and eight and a half year imprisonment. This selection features some of his most powerful shorter poems alongside a long extract from his seminal work 'Casablanca