Heavenly Life by Ramsey Nasr (Paperback Book)

Heavenly LifeAuthor(s): Ramsey Nasr\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Banipal Books, United Kingdom\nImprint: Banipal Books\nISBN-13: 9780954966690, 978-0954966690\nSynopsis\nShortlisted for the 2011 Popescu Prize for Poetry Translated from a European Language into English, run by the Poetry Society.\n\nForeword by Ruth Padel and introduced by Victor Schiferli.\n\n\""With this collection Anglophone readers are introduced to a poet of global scope,\"" writes renowned American poet Marilyn Hacker.\n\nPrize-winning poet, essayist, dramatist and actor Ramsey Nasr, born in 1974 in Rotterdam into a Palestinian-Dutch family, was voted Poet Laureate of the Netherlands in 2009. A man of many passions, including classical music, drama, poetry and travel, as city poet of Antwerp in 2005 his appearances were attended like pop concerts.\n\n\""There is an exuberance and energy about these poems poems for the voice and for performance, which nonetheless sit beautifully on the page and move easily between