Kategoria BISAC: Poetry >> Middle Eastern

Since the late 1940s, Arabic poetry has spoken for an Arab conscience, as much as it has debated positions and ideologies, nationally and worldwide. This book tackles issues of modernity and tradition in Arabic poetry as manifested in poetic texts and criticism by poets as participants in transformation and change. It studies the poetic in its complexity, relating to issues of selfhood, individuality, community, religion, ideology, nation, class and gender.

Al-Musawi also explores in context issues that have been cursorily noticed or neglected, like Shi'i poetics, Sufism, women's...

A master scholar of Hebrew literature, Pagis drew fully on classical texts and infused his poetry with a centuries-old mysticism. Yet he also brought an immediacy and colloquialism to Hebrew poetry. In these superbly translated poems, Dan Pagis's voice can be heard celebrating the human spirit.

All of Abir Zaki's proceeds from this book will be donated to the UNICEF.

"Man is a book, a reader or a writing or possibly doesn't exist at all. Instead man is a universe that is readable and the author of life itself. Almost as with Kierkegaard, where existence is written or will be wrote. "Book of the book, /I> is like metaphysics in motion, capturing the multiple dimensions of existence, and when writing becomes open to interpretations, to be re-read: not as the will to power, but as the will to read. A beautiful book, outside and in." STANDART

"Meeting Jamal Juma is far from superfluous - a small crack has been...

All of Abir Zaki's proceeds from this book will be donated to the UNICEF.

The earliest Turkish verses, dating from the sixth century A.D., were love lyrics. Since then, love has dominated the Turks' poetic modes and moodspre-Islamic, Ottoman classical, folk, modern. In style, form and sensibility, this collection offers a broad spectrum: virtually all types and varieties are represented here. The English versions are loyal to the originals and strive to be authentic poems in English.

Here are lyrics from pre-Islamic Central Asia, passages from epics, mystical ecstasies of such eminent thirteenth-century figures as Rumi and Yunus Emre, classical poems of the...