My Heart Became a Bomb by Ramy Al-Asheq PAPERBACK 9781477322260

My Heart Became a Bomb\nby Ramy Al-Asheq\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Ramy Al-Asheq\nTitle: My Heart Became a Bomb\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Poetry by individual poets\nPublisher: University of Texas Press\nISBN-13: 9781477322260\nISBN-10: 1477322264\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nMy Heart Became a Bomb is the first collection of poetry by Syrian-Palestinian poet Ramy al-Asheq to be translated into English. Poignant and raw, these poems take the reader along a path of forced emigration from Bashar al-Assad's prisons in Syria to Amsterdam to Auschwitz to Berlin, Germany, where Al-Asheq is now creating a new home. By turns melancholy and reflective, celebratory and hopeful, Al-Asheq's newly translated poems offer the English-reading audience a contemporary persp.