Poetry and Reflections

To the World From a Distant Son

by Dr. Aomar Benslimane


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 7/9/2012

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 5x8
Page Count : 104
ISBN : 9781477208878
Format : E-Book
Dimensions : N/A
Page Count : 104
ISBN : 9781477208885

About the Book

Contemplations, often dark that spring up along walks of shattered memories conjured by the rythms of New York and the world conversation in the shadows of globalization as it unfolded in the last few years paying tribute to those that shaped it. The book moves seamlessly across cultural and historical bounadaries evoquing the New York City cultural settings, the Algerian Amazigh identity, the global climate change conversation and finally the latest world events viewed thrugh the author


About the Author

An aspiring American poet residing in New York/New Jersey area since 1992 coming from an engineering background. Originally Algerian berber. This is first poetry collection, A surprising often choking series of homages, elegies, rants, and autobiographical poems as a new register of language in which time and mortality echo and reverberate in often dark notes but ending on hopeful love notes to describe a state of an unquiet mind and restless soul in light of personal conditions that affected him and still endure and a constant struggle to extract joy and hope out of suffering