Book cover, Sprichst du mit mir, Löcker Verlag, 2016
THURSDAY SEPT. 22, 2016 at 7:30 p.m.
Book Launch at the
KUPPITSCH BOOKSTORE
Schottengasse 4, 1010 Wien
SPRICHST DU MIT MIR / YOU TALKING TO ME
On Origins • On Love • On Death
Poems by Susanne Ayoub
with drawings by Rima Al-Juburi
“You Talking to Me” deals with origins, the idea of home and homeland, with identity, following clues, and memory.
In this book of poetry, the versatile author, who works for various media, publishes new poetry. The poems are illustrated by the painter Rima Al-Juburi, with whom a shared history connects Ayoub: both of them were born in Muslim and Christian family constellations, and both now live in Vienna.
Hammurabi awakes
1001 FLUGVERBOT
Der Himmel über Baghdad
gehört den Sternen
den Vögeln
dem Wind
Flugzeugen nicht
der Himmel über Baghdad
ist ein Gedicht
1001 FLIGHT BANS
The sky above Baghdad
belongs to the stars,
the birds,
the wind.
Not to airplanes.
The sky above Baghdad
is a poem.
Translated by Geoffrey C. Howes
In her pictures and painted porcelain vessels, Rima Al-Juburi captures ancient Mesopotamian motifs. Some of them are reproduced in this book.
