The World's Embrace: Selected Poems

""No/ this is not a time for dreams/ A dream is indecent/ and useless/ as the poet's tears,"" writes Abdellatif La bi in a stanza revealing one of the many facets of The World's Embrace: Selected Poems. Translated by various hands, and edited with an introduction by Victor Reinking and a foreword by Ammiel Alcalay, this book selects from six collections by the Moroccan poet and novelist, who has lived in Paris since 1985, following a term as a political prisoner.