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Morning in Serra Mattu: A Nubian Ode (McSweeney's Poetry Series)

Morning in Serra Mattu: A Nubian Ode

Penned By Arif Gamal
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Morning in Serra Mattu: A Nubian Ode (McSweeney's Poetry Series)

Morning in Serra Mattu: A Nubian Ode

Penned By Arif Gamal
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A mosaic of interrelated stories exploding with personality, myth, and geohistorical weight, Morning in Serra Mattu is a profound, joyful meditation on life in modern Sudan. Arif Gamal seamlessly blends large-scale political realities with the local and the traditional: “old villages/whose ancient way is so composed/each single blade of grass is known/and in its place.” Epic in scope, spellbinding in its intimacy, generosity, and wisdom, Morning in Serra Mattu is the book we didn’t know we needed.how thrilling it was in the earliest morningto race barefoot down the sandy slopes and duneswith all the bellowing goatsand dogs and sheep and other animalsfor their first morning drinkand to swim in the fresh waters of the flowing riverwhile the thousand upon thousandof high unhindered Nubian stars began to fall awaybefore a tinge of milky line along the hillsuntil light grew from nearly nothingto an immensity—from “Return to Serra Mattu”

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Length 181 Pages
Released April 15, 2014
Identifier (ISBN) 18342421
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Arif Gamal is a writer and avid reader based in the Pacific Northwest. Before pursuing writing full-time, they spent over a decade working in education. When not working on their next book, Arif Gamal can usually be found hiking with their dog or trying out new coffee shops in their neighborhood.

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