Sargon Boulus

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Sargon Boulus (1944 Habbaniyah, Iraq - ) is an Iraqi Assyrian Arabic poet and short story writer. In 1967, he left for Beriut, where he worked as a journalist and a translator. He later imegrated to the United States, and since 1968 he has lived in San Francisco. He studied comparative literature at the University of California at Berkley, and sculpture at Skyline College. An avant-garde and thoroughly modern writer, his poetry has been published in major Arab magazines and has translated Merwin, Ginsberg, Snyder, McLure, and others.^[1]