Amazon.com: The fourth volume of the landmark Poems for the Millennium series, edited by Pierre Joris and Habib Tengour is a comprehensive gathering of the written and oral literatures of the Maghreb, the region of North Africa that spans the modern nation states of Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Mauritania, and including a section on the influential Arabo-Berber and Jewish literary culture of Al-Andalus, which flourished in Spain between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. Beginning with the earliest pictograms and rock drawings and ending with the work of the current generation of post-independence and diasporic writers, this volume takes in a range of cultures and voices, including Berber, Phoenician, Jewish, Roman, Vandal, Arab, Ottoman, and French. The selections are contextualized by a general introduction that situates the importance of this little-known culture area and individual commentaries for nearly each author. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.