Birds of Nabaa Victoria Ellen Smith the dark and sometimes brutal

the dark and sometimes brutal undertow of small-town existence seeps to the surface of these unsettling poems

Desiree Reynolds started her writing career in London as a freelance journalist for the Jamaica Gleaner and the Village Voice

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Birds of Nabaa Victoria Ellen Smith the dark and sometimes brutalBirds of Nabaa follows the physical and spiritual journeys of its narrator from his beginnings in a remote Mauritanian village, whose flocks lead the community according to their own inscrutable instincts, to life in Madrid, the Gulf states and Guinea, where his work as an embassy accountant takes him. Inspired by the Sahara of his childhood and devoted from an early age to the vagabond life of the pre Islamic poets, his constant life on the move in