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Oxford Left Review 70 71 Osama Esber is a Syrian poet, short story writer, publisher and translator. Among his poetry collections are Screens of History (1994), e Accord of Waves (1995), Repeated Sunrise over Exile (2004), and Where He Doesn’t Live (2006). An oppo- nent both of the Assad regime and the Islamist insurgency, he recently ed Syria with his family. He describes this poem, a dialogue with Dante’s Divine Comedy written after his arrival as a refugee in America, as simultaneously concerned with ‘the hell of the Syrian war and the hell of living in Chicago’. Dante: You illuminate my words, my inspirer, on the roads of hell osama esber In the Land of Revelation
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a Esber is a Syrian poet, short story writer, publisher and translator. Among
his poetry collections are Screens of History (1994), !
e Accord of Waves (1995),
Repeated Sunrise over Exile (2004), and Where H
e Doesn’t Live (2006). An oppo-
nent both of the Assad regime and the Islam
ist insurgency, he recently !ed Syria with his fam
ily. He describes this poem
, a dialogue with Dante’s D
ivine Com
edy written after his arrival as a refugee in Am
erica, as simultaneously concerned with
‘the hell of the Syrian war and the hell of living in Chicago’.
Dante:
You illuminate m
y words, my inspirer, on the roads of hell
osa
ma e
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In the Land of Revelation
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