A reprinted edition of selected Middle East poems written in a time before Iraq became a war zone, The Baskets of Baghdad is a memoir in poetry of the author's life in Iraq in 1964-65 where he taught English at the University of Baghdad. This second edition contains new works by the author: The Lost List is a requiem to students, friends and neighbous who suffered and died in the 1991 Iraq war. Kindergarten to Iraq is an historical and literary essay in poetry and prose on the 2003 invasion of Iraq by empire and religion wrapped in war.

There are a number of poems related to friends of the author who lost their lives in the gulf and iraq wars.



Poet, playwright, and fiction writer, Stanley K. Freiberg is a Blake scholar and a specialist in the English Romantic period. He received his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin in 1957. Retired from the University of Calgary department of English in 1979, he has taught at universities in the United States, Canada and Baghdad, Iraq. His published works are recorded in Who's Who in International Poetry (Cambridge, England) and Who's Who in Canadian Literature (Toronto). His critical opinions and personal comments on art are cited in Contemporary Authors (Detroit).