Speaking English Ghalib Halasa This is about the American

This is about the American husband and father: well meaning but caught out

in his own distinctive terms… he continues him

I felt my spirit turn to milk

Abdelkarim al-Tabbal: Poems

Speaking English Ghalib Halasa This is about the AmericanThis is not a book about John Lucas (although he has a walk on role in several of these poems), but one which seeks to address the subjects which have engaged his attention over the years England, literature, cricket, criticism, history, teaching, publishing, politics, poetry, beer, jazz Speaking English celebrates common experience, the regional and the radical, the demotic and the democratic, the poetics of saying what you mean and the politics of