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Originally published in 1975, Proximal Morocco— is a collection of poems by Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine written in fits and starts during a span of ten years (1964–1974), during the fever pitch of his political exile from his homeland of Morocco which he fled, partly for fear of political persecution and partly to pursue a literary career in Paris, France. Laced with the same politically-inflected Surrealistic fervor as Aimé Césaire, the book is at once a powerful outcry to fellow artists for international solidarity of the colonized and outcast and a documentation of the pain and struggle of exile.

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Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine (1941–1995) was a Moroccan Amazigh writer and poet. His first book, Agadir (Éditions du Seuil, 1967), was awarded the Jean Cocteau Enfants Terribles Prize. One of the major Francophone avant-garde poets of his generation, Khaïr-Eddine was hailed as the “Rimbaud of the Maghreb” and won renown for his Surrealist-inspired “linguistic guerrilla warfare,” which he developed in works such as Corps négatif (1968), Soleil arachnide (1969) Moi l’aigre (1970), and Le Déterreur (1973). With Abdellatif Laâbi and Mostafa Nissabouri, he helped found the avant-garde Moroccan journal Souffles-Anfas before he was compelled to self-exile in 1965. Khaïr-Eddine lived in France until returning to Morocco in 1979. He died in 1995 in Rabat. Jake Syersak is the author of the poetry books Mantic Compost and Yield Architecture. He is also the translator of several books by Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine. The recipient of a 2021 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, his poetry and translations have appeared in such journals as Black Warrior Review, Colorado Review, Conjunctions, and elsewhere. He earned his MFA in creative writing from the University of Arizona and a PhD in English and creative writing from the University of Georgia. Currently, he edits the micro-press Radioactive Cloud and lives in Seattle. Khalid Lyamlahy is Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Chicago where he teaches North African literature. He is the coeditor of Abdelkébir Khatibi: Postcolonialism, Transnationalism, and Culture in the Maghreb and Beyond (Liverpool University Press, 2020). His scholarly publications have appeared in PMLA, Research in African Literature, and the Journal of North African Studies. Besides his academic work, he has published a novel, Un roman étranger (Présence Africaine Editions, 2017) and translated into Arabic Felwine Sarr’s Habiter le monde: essai de politique relationnelle (Kulte Editions, 2022). He is also a regular contributor to several literary magazines in France and the United States.

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