Sargon Boulus
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Sargon Boulus (1944 – October 22, 2007)[1] was an Iraqi Assyrian Arabic poet and short story writer.
He was born in Habbaniyah, Iraq. In 1967, he left for Beirut, where he worked as a journalist and a translator. He later emigrated to the United States, and from 1968 lived in San Francisco. He studied comparative literature at the University of California at Berkeley, and sculpture at Skyline College. An avant-garde and thoroughly modern writer, his poetry has been published in major Arab magazines and has translated W. S. Merwin, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Michael McClure, and others.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ "Iraqi poet Sargon Boulus dies at age 63", The Daily Star, October 24, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-23-10.
- ^ Modern Arabic Poetry: An Anthology, By Salma Khadra Jayyusi, page 183
[edit] External links
- 4 poems in translation at Masthead
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