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eft Review
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Osam
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
sbe
r
In the Land of Revelation