The Complete Poetic Works of Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, Part 1 + 2

And how often I cried out in my sleepless days and nights:

"O Mother, come, for I am afflicted and healed."

The snow groans, and the ravens croak from its depths,

And between my bed, soaked to the bottom with rain,

And your grave, rivers roar,

And the seas rage to their depths, churned by the storm.

Did the wind not carry to you, through the stillness of the night,

The cries of your two granddaughters from hunger and your starving grandson?

We have starved, and in silence we have borne hunger and deprivation,

And our secret is revealed by children weeping in anguish.

Is it hunger in the land that has afflicted you? What sorrows

keep the eyes of the dead awake?

Specifications:

- Author: Badr Shakir al-Sayyab

- Number of pages in Part One: 582

- Number of pages in Part Two: 528

- Cover: Hardcover