{"id":6306,"date":"2011-05-10T08:06:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T12:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=6306"},"modified":"2011-05-10T08:06:57","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T12:06:57","slug":"from-the-%e2%80%9cdiwan-ifrikiya%e2%80%9d-anthology-salah-garmadi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/from-the-%e2%80%9cdiwan-ifrikiya%e2%80%9d-anthology-salah-garmadi\/","title":{"rendered":"from the \u201cDiwan Ifrikiya\u201d anthology: Salah Garmadi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Salah Garmadi (1933 – 1982)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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OUR ANCESTORS THE BEDUINS<\/strong>
\nthey are here
\nno one can deny them
\nno slogan can efface them
\nthey are the inherited majority
\ndepth\u00a0coiled in maghrebian palms leaves
\nuntamable root<\/p>\n

the Moroccans still keep watch over the Tunisian street
\nthe Tunisians still fry doughnuts for the children of Beja\u00efa
\nin Constantine a man of the people offered a sheep\u2019s
\nhead and declared we are one single people<\/p>\n

our fresh air children make themselves siamese
\nour naked legged women will produce princesses
\nour adolescence will cry out
\ngo ahead little guy go straight ahead
\nour mouths are modest yet want to say it all already
\nand our Einsteins will be majestic in their djellabas<\/p>\n

the African snow is holding back man\u2019s foot
\nthe march-exile back of wanderers gives shape to the hubbub-instinct wave
\nin quest of subsistence
\nand Gharda\u00efa eyes delight in the ochres
\nand the blues in shadow earth Gharda\u00efa with nocturnal gaze of
\ntutelary owl caress and commerce like Jerba adulated Ber-
\nber sister
\nand Roufi has balconies
\nlost image mirage found again in the hollow of the palmed oued
\nHassi-Messaoud
\ndune from which tumbles the friend at Allah\u2019s call
\nstony ground where man persists and acts<\/p>\n

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Translated by P.J.<\/p>\n

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Salah Garmadi was born in Tunis, Tunisia in 1933, and died in a car crash in 1982. He was a novelist and poet who write both in Arabic and French. This poem is the tile poem of the 1975 volume\u00a0Nos anc\u00eatres les B\u00e9douins<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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