Yusuf al-Khal (1917 – 1987) was a Syrian-born poet who has made his career largely in Lebanon; with Ali Ahmad Said (a.k.a. Adonis), he founded the magazine Shi'r ("Poetry") in Beirut in 1957. [Irwin, 24] His
Horacio Castellanos Moya is an adventurous and brave writer, but he is careful to cast his work in as distinctly different a light than these two adjectives would typically suggest as possible. He is concerned with the ordinariness of the seemingly extraordinary, with w