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The Arabic poetic legacy is as vast as it is deep, spanning a period of fifteen centuries in regions from Morocco to Iraq. As a unifying principle, editor Marle Hammond has selected eighty poems reflecting desire and longing of various kinds: for the beloved, for the divine, for the homeland, and for change and renewal. Poets include the legendary pre-Islamic warrior 'Antara Ibn Shaddad, medieval Andalusian poet Ibn Zaydun, the wandering poet Al-A'sha, and the influential Egyptian Romantic Ahmad Zaki Abu Shadi. Here too are literary giants of the past century: Khalil Jibran, author of the bestselling The Prophet; popular Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani; Palestinian feminist Fadwa Tuqan; Mahmoud Darwish, bard of occupation and exile; acclaimed iconoclast Adonis, and more. In their evocations of heroism, nostalgia, mysticism, grief, and passion, the poems gathered here transcend the limitations of time and place.

Book details

Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry anthologies (various poets)

• Full title: Arabic Poems
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9781841597980
• ISBN: 1841597988
• ID: 04851452
• Publisher: Everyman
• Weight: 248 g
• Dimensions: 138 × 113 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. June 2014

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