Abdulla Pashew 
Dictionary of Midnight 

With a foreword by National Book Award-winning author William T. Vollmann


Dictionary of Midnight collects almost 50 years of poetry by Abdulla Pashew, the most influential Kurdish poet alive today. Pashew’s poems chart a personal cartography of exile, recounting the recent political history of Kurdistan and its struggle for independence. Poet-translator Alana Marie Levinson-La Brosse worked with the poet to select and translate his most iconic poems, balancing well-known, politically engaged contemporary Kurdish classics like ’12 Lessons for Children’ with the concise love lyrics that have always punctuated his work.

关于作者

William T. Vollmann is the National Book Award-winning author of nonfiction, short stories, and novels, including Europe Central.