Jahan Ramazani has written that These dazzling lyrics and sequences create one of the most compelling portraits we have of a mind, a sensibility, a language emerging from the hybridization of cultures. "
Jahan Ramazani has written that These dazzling lyrics and sequences create one of the most compelling portraits we have of a mind, a sensibility, a...
Joumana Haddad, an unrivaled poetry star in Arabic (and many other languages) famous for her deeply passionate poetic visions, has finally given the English-speaking world entry into her luscious work. In these gorgeous translations, her voice remains sumptuous and alluring, carefully drawing the reader in before unveiling soulful insight and wisdom.
This is Lebanese-born Joumana Haddad's fifth collection of poetry to be published. She is highly regarded as a poet not only throughout the Arab-speaking world, but also in Europe and Latin America. She has a strong presence on the Internet...
Joumana Haddad, an unrivaled poetry star in Arabic (and many other languages) famous for her deeply passionate poetic visions, has finally given th...
"And I say come like a stranger, like a feather falling on an old woman s shoulder, like a hawk that comes to feed from her hands, come like a mystery, like sunlight rain, a blessing, a bus falling off a bridge, come like a deserting soldier, a murderer chased by law, like a girl prostitute escaping her pimp, come like a lost horse, like a dog dying of thirst, come love, come ragged and melancholy like the last day on earth, come like a sigh from a sick man, come like a whisper, like a bump on the road, like a flood, a dam breaking,...
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"And I say come like a stranger, like a feather falling on an old woman s shoulder, like a hawk that comes to feed from he...
?Shepherd of Solitude is the first English collection for Jordanian poet Amjad Nasser, translated and introduced by the foremost translator of contemporary Arabic poetry into English Khaled Mattawa, with the poems selected by poet and translator from the poets Arabic volumes over the years 1979 to 2004.
?Shepherd of Solitude is the first English collection for Jordanian poet Amjad Nasser, translated and introduced by the foremost translator of contemp...
In Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet s Art and His Nation, Mattawa pays tribute to one of the most celebrated and well-read poets of our era. With detailed knowledge of Arabic verse and a firm grounding in Palestinian history, Mattawa explores the ways in which Darwish s aesthetics have played a crucial role in shaping and maintaining Palestinian identity and culture through decades of warfare, attrition, exile, and land confiscation. Mattawa chronicles the evolution of his poetry, from a young poet igniting resistance in occupied land to his decades in exile where his...
In Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet s Art and His Nation, Mattawa pays tribute to one of the most celebrated and well-read poets of our era. With ...
A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.
"Like the myriad companions and comrades that he summons from their exile, Khaled Mattawa is himself a 'poet-stranger.' In the essays, 'written in a poet's prose, ' collected in How Long Have You Been With Us, Mattawa evokes a powerful amalgam of the personal intimacy of the solitary and the political challenge of solidarity." --Barbara Harlow, University of...
A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book ...
