Knife Sharpener: Selected Poems

First major poetry collection in English translation by one of the best-known and influential of contemporary Arab poets

Knife Sharpener is a posthumous commemoration and celebration of Sargon Boulus in this collection of poems, written between 1991 and 2007 that he translated himself, together with an essay, "Poetry and Memory", written a few months before he died. With a Foreword by Adonis and an Introduction by Dublin poet and publisher Pat Boran, the volume includes seven pages of photographs as well as tributes from fellow poets and writers and Afterword by the publisher.

Sargon Boulus was unusually influential among young Arab poets, who "found in him the father who refused to practice his patriarchy and a poet who always renewed himself in his rebellion against rhetoric . . ."[Abdo Wazen]