Nostalgia, My Enemy: Poems

The country we love was finished before it was even born.

The country we did not love has claimed the blood left in our veins.

—from "A Desperate Poem"

Nostalgia, My Enemy collects some of the best of Saadi Youssef's most recent poems from the last decade, since the ongoing American-led war in his home country of Iraq. In direct, penetrating language, translated from the original Arabic by Sinan Antoon and Pete...