State of Emergency

Gumar was born and raised in Algiers where he worked as a journalist and award-winning poet. This representative selection speaks of urgent concerns everywhere--oppression, resistance, state violence, traumas, and private dreams.

Illusions	p. 27
The right eyes	p. 29
Itinerary	p. 31
False departure	p. 33
Summer hubbub	p. 35
Hold-up	p. 37
Certainties	p. 39
The voiceless	p. 41
The festival of the wolf	p. 43
Graffiti	p. 45
An original summer	p. 47
Evenings	p. 55
Suns	p. 57
Eternal	p. 59
For the love of jazz and chaabi	p. 61
Ceremony	p. 65
The hymn to paunches	p. 67
Don Quimoh	p. 69
The keywords	p. 71
Anniversary	p. 73
Rendez-vous	p. 77
Homage	p. 79
Loundja	p. 81
Monologue	p. 83
Here and there	p. 85
Gegene	p. 87
Interrogatory	p. 89
A draught	p. 91
The Aleph point	p. 93
Place names	p. 97
Leaves of mint	p. 99
Russian dolls	p. 101
Moonlight	p. 103
A dream	p. 105
Of puppets and men	p. 107
Riff-raff	p. 109
The choice	p. 111
Flight and forgiveness	p. 113
Sepulchres	p. 115
To live far	p. 117
The system	p. 119
Offside	p. 121
Parallel gardens	p. 123
Overthrow	p. 125
Outside and inside	p. 127
Exile	p. 131
Club des Pins	p. 133
Demo	p. 137
Scenarios	p. 139
State of emergency	p. 141
Crazy hope	p. 145
Adieu!	p. 147
Waiting	p. 149
Vengeance	p. 151
Force-folie	p. 153
Right answers	p. 155
Fire of joy	p. 157
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