Two Half Faces

By Mustafa StitouTranslated by David Colmer  The first English-language collection by Moroccan-Dutch poet Mustafa Stitou, Two Half Faces spans the career of an adventurous, playful thinker, a master of the Dutch language and a prophet of his time. Publication Date: October 13, 2020 Paperback: 9781646050314eBook: 9781646050321 Description In his first English-language collection, Moroccan-Dutch poet Mustafa Stitou marks his position as one of the most important poets of his generation. Two Half Faces collects work from across Stitou’s career as he grapples in his poetry with his position in a changing reality. Stitou brilliantly parlays his relationship with his two homelands into a chronicle of identity, producing a vital account of cultural friction in poems that range from narrative to lyrical. Humor and seriousness go hand in hand, and the everyday combines with the surreal and the sublime to form a vibrant tension. This collection charts Stitou’s progress as a poet of emotion and