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Rain Song
Badr Shakir al-Sayyab
1960
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A landmark poem of rain, homeland and loss.
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A founding father of Arabic free verse who overturned a thousand years of metre. Rain Song became a manifesto of the new poetry, fusing personal pain with the fate of Iraq.
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