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Amina Said was born in Tunis in 1953, to a Tunisian father and a French mother. She has been living in Paris since 1978. She writes in French and has published eight volumes of poetry and two [...]

fire iron blood barbed wire Djibouti meditates on Red Sea shore dhows rot in the cove of the port Rimbaud seated pensive at a school desk has no more ink for his pen no paper for a poem kilomètre [...]

above black Gorée basalt boulders encircling the island of slaves dark cells iron chains the door of no return the continent far off the port Dakar still farther beyond the sea and the desert is [...]