Monday, May 11, 2020

possible epigraph for Autobiography of a Book

I opened the closet
That I had closed in my youth.
The love book that I had left
Was covered with dust
The dust that covered it
I shook it off
The book said: Who is waking me up?

from “Love, Love, Love” by Lounis Ait Menguellet
translation from Tamazight by Rabah Seffal

source: Poems for the Millennium, vol. 2: The University of California book of North African literature 
edited by Pierre Joris and Habib Tengour
2012. University of California Press, Berkeley CA

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