Poets and the Algerian War

A collection of poems provoked by the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62) by French and Algerian poets. This anthology features some of the French poets who opposed the war, including Louis Aragon, Jacques Gaucheron, Madeleine Riffaud, Pierre Seghers, Henri Deluy and Guillevic, as well as Algerian poets like Jean Sénac, Kateb Yacine, Bachir Hadj Ali, Noureddine Aba, Messaour Boulanouar, Mohammed Dib, Omar El Bernaoui and Mohamed Saleh Baouiya. These poets are important, not only as historical witnesses to a terrible war, but also as a reminder of the possibilities and of the responsibilities of poetry in our own times.