The first English-language collection by Moroccan-Dutch sensation Mustafa Stitou, Two Half Faces spans the career of an adventurous, exalted poet, a master of the Dutch language and a prophet of his time.

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CINEMA in a time of all-consuming drought in a time when farmer does his sums take straw to a car abandoned on his land Father leaves as a child with his uncle the deserter for nine pesetas in the back of the camiona—armpits off the metal—going to Tétouan, tiny Tétouan with its reliable souk in the rigor of the mosque’s austerity they pray sluggish and sighing after jobs in gnawing sun drink water from the water seller with the sad grin and cool off in the Spanish cinema with sunflower seeds it rained in the movie Allah al Akbar it rained rain rain rain and I thought rain was falling everywhere outside Father acts it out fidgeting with the remote control outside stone trembles wind melts lips harden to beaks and people die that sun-drenched summer