From the Lannan Translation Series Selection comes another double blessing - the incandescent poetry of the master, Saadi Youssef, translated to perfection by another master poet, Khaled Mattawa. Youssef is one of the most powerful writers of the Arab world and his works have been substantially represented in this volume which is handsomely edited and contextualised and descibed as a grand opportunity to let in another ray of light upon a darkness all too indeterminate by Richard Howard.