Taha Muhammad Ali, who died in 2011, was an exceptional person and an extraordinary poet, with an expansive imagination. Several years before he died, he had already conjured a poem about his final hours as he’d like them be. He read the poem in front of a live audience in Port Townsend, Washington, in 2006, and here we offer a lively recording of the poem, read first in Arabic by Taha and then in English by his translator Peter Cole.
