| Description |
xxviii, 498 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The human clay The phoenix / Ilya Abu Madi -- A Roman temple An eagle / ʻUmar Abu Risha -- You or I? This is my wine I love you / Ilyas Au Shabaka -- The wisdom of life Hind and her mother / Al-Akhtal al-Saghir (Bishara ʻAbdallah al-Khuri) -- Do not show your love More beautiful than your eyes Dark beauty From The book of roses / Saʻid ʻAql -- Dark mirage The visit Immortality Beauty / Badawi al-Jabal (Muhammad Sulaiman al-Ahmad) -- Tormented mystic Memories of the village school / Al-Tijani Yusuf Bashir -- Quatrains My burned suit Salma Wilderness / Ilyas Farhat -- Veiled land Earth The seven stages Fame The poet / Gibran Kahlil Gibran -- Describing a suit / Hafiz Ibrahim -- Come down, darkness Lullaby for the hungry / Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri -- Boycott Evening / Mutran Khalil Mutran -- Where is the guard? The pleasures of darkness The ship of life The moth / Ahmad al-Safi al-Najafi -- Farewell Oblivion / Ibrahim Naji -- To the beloved grown past youth Black song / Amin Nakhla -- Seek out another heart To a worm / Mikhaʼil Nuʻaima -- Poem to al-Raihani The abyss of death / Maʻruf al-Rasafi -- Life's will Quatrains from "Song of ecstasy" / Abu al-Qasim al-Shabbi -- Bois de Boulogne Thoughts on schoolchildren An Andalusian exile / Ahmad Shauqi -- The blind musician Egyptian serenade / ʻAli Mahmud Taha -- The martyr Perplexity / Ibrahim Tuqan -- Both strangers / Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi -- I remember having loved / Hasan ʻAbdallah -- Ode of signs / Muhammad ʻAbd al Hayy -- Expectation: night and day The gist of the story The people of my country Winter song The sun and the woman / Salah ʻAbd al-Sabur -- Dreaded road Reaching forty You rise among truths / ʻAbd al-Razzaq ʻAbd al-Wahid -- Water for the family horse The student Fugue / Shauqi Abi Shaqra -- A mirror to Khalida Beginning speech A song Who are you? Mihyar, a king! A grave for New York / Adunis (ʻAli Ahmad Saʻid) -- Poet Lady of chaos / ʻAli Jaʻfar al-ʻAllaq -- Gardens for the fire and the rain The princess / Muhammad al-Asʻad -- From exile to exile From "A rose from al-Mutanabbi's blood" / ʻAbd-Allah al-Baraduni -- Dilana and diram The wild goat The cows of heaven The greyhound The hoopoe bird The flamingo The squirrel / Saleem Barakat -- The impossible Luzumiyya The birth of Aisha and her death Elegy for Aisha / ʻAbd al-Wahhab al-Bayyati -- The second coming Belonging to a new family / Mohammad Bennis -- Lighter Poem My father's dream Siege / Sargon Boulus -- Tale of the Assyrian statue Man of the stone city / Mahmoud al-Buraikan -- In memory of ʻIzziddin al-Qalaq The death of the shoemaker / Ahmad Dahbur -- Diary of a Palestinian wound Bread From Beirut Poems after Beirut / Mahmoud Darwish -- Overture Dialogue of the night of the roses Season of beginning and end Two hands on the water / Zuhur Dixon -- The scaffold Corner Tomorrow Trains The city a wrecked ship / Amal Dunqul -- Poems / Salah Faʼiq -- The story Incident The question and the answer The dervish The closed door A scream The vision / Muhammad al-Faituri -- Female Quatrains for joy Your eyes A dream The pen My sister Taghore The beggar / Muhammad al-Ghuzzi -- Octopus When I am with you Silence / Ghazi al-Gosaibi -- The children All of them Like the white From Standing while we die Interrogation / Qasim Haddad -- The gazelle Words and truth A woman Breaking the precepts / Yasin Taha Hafiz -- The dead witness Age of the rubber seals Genesis Dialogue / Buland al-Haidari -- He knew joy on Earth The one who laughs and laughs and laughs The wolf Blue crest of fondness Autumn leaves are Virgin Mary / Unsi al-Haj -- Flute and wind in the hermit's cell The bridge The magi in Europe / Khalil Hawi -- Rendezvous in the cave The lonely woman's room Secrets Elegies, or The stations of the other time / Ahmad ʻAbd al-Muʻti Hijazi -- Lessons in parsing Jerusalem ... and the hour / Rashid Husain -- Signature Descent of Abu Nuwas / Hasab al-Shaikh Jaʻfar -- Scrapping limits The ship of love April woman On visiting the M.D. Anderson / Salma Khadra Jayyusi -- Disposition no. I Coda The harvest / Shafiq al-Kamali -- The gravestone Tales about my father The suitcases / ʻAbd al-Karim Kassid -- Cain the immortal The wayfarers The deserted well After the fifth of June / Yusuf al-Khal -- The clover flower On saying goodbye to the lady in green / ʻAli ʻAbdallah Khalifa -- The cripple Ants and the sun / Khalil Khouri -- Shade and noon sun The orphan An Arab traveler in a space ship The tattoo From the threshold to the sky Tourist / Muhammad al-Maghut -- On details Awakening The inheritance World of fancy The mistake / Sami Mahdi -- Weariness in the evening of January thirty-second / ʻIsam Mahfouz -- The rain Birth (al-Maulid) / Muhammad al-Mahdi al-Majdhoub -- Lilies for the Prophet The visitor who never came Love song for words Song for the moon / Nazik al-Malaʼika -- Day From Nightwatch / Khairi Mansour -- Telegrams of tenderness for Sanʻaa Choice First communiqúe from one returning from the Zanj revolt / ʻAbd al-ʻAziz al-Maqalih -- Recital / Muhammad ʻAfifi Matar -- The wall of tomorrow Race Transformations Graves The statue Lost / Orkhan Muyassar -- Love poem To you: three poems Both Earth and Heaven / Huda Naʻmani -- Exile Loneliness Bent branches / Amjad Nasir -- Hameed Um Hakeem / Salah Niyazi -- Poems Two African breasts Poems Equation I conquer the world with words Foolishness Language Cup and rose Testament Introduction to Painting with words The child scribbles Fragments from Notes on the book of defeat From The actors / Nizar Qabbani -- Girl from Rafah From After the apocalypse / Samih al-Qasim -- Entering the gardens of doom / Sayf al-Rahabi -- Mirrors The threshold The ultimate distance The fortune teller / Fuʼad Rifqa -- Mad woman Free harbor You alone A wild cat The pit / Suʻad al-Mubarak al-Sabah -- Poems from Jungles / Kamal Sabti -- Dying at the edge of death Daily delights Emanations / Hameed Saʻid -- Suddenly Is this all that remains of love? A story Why? Wet Ants Hair / Yusuf al-Saʼigh -- Sea desires / Laila al-Saʼih -- Goodbye, Zenobia / Saniyya Salih -- Lament / Mai Sayigh -- Out of the depths I cry unto you, o death! Phantom / Tawfiq Sayigh -- Rain song Song in August Jaikur and the city Death and the river In the Arab Maghreb / Badr Shakir al-Sayyab -- From Psalm 23 to the singer's nectar / ʻAli al-Sharqawi -- The breaking of the glass / ʻAbdallah al-Tayyib -- A song of Job / Khalil Touma -- In the aging city In the flux Face lost in the wilderness I found it / Fadwa Tuqan -- Elegy for a man who died and died The Casbah / Mamdouh ʻUdwan -- An answer From Personal reflections From Signs / Ahmad al-Mushari al-ʻUdwani -- The desert In the Arab house Ceremony The camel A man rises from the cave of Ḥiraʼ / Al-Munsif al-Wahaybi -- Letter to a Bedouin informer Elegy / Khalifa al-Wugayyan -- The woods Departure of '82 Sentiment Three dispositions regarding one woman A woman A hot evening A state of fever / Saʻdi Yusuf -- Passing remark Before their tanks Here we will stay They know Salman Pagan fires / Tawfiq Zayyad |
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Ilya Abu Madi -- Umar Abu Risha -- Ilyas Abu Shabaka -- Al-Akhtal al-Saghir -- Sa'id Aql -- Badawi al-Jabal -- Al-Tijani Yusuf Bashir -- Ilyas Farhat -- Salma -- Gibran Kahlil Gibran -- Hafiz Ibrahim -- Muhammad M. al-Jawahiri -- Mutran Khalil Mutran -- Ahmad al-Safi al-Najafi -- Ibrahim Naji -- Amin Nakhla -- Mikha'il Nu'aima -- Ma'ruf al-Rasafi -- Abu al-Qasim al-Shabbi -- Ahmad Shauqi -- Ali Mahmud Taha -- Ibrahim Tuqan -- Jamil S. al-Zahawi -- Hasan Abdallah -- Muhammad Abd al-Hayy -- Salah Abd al-Sabur -- Abd al-Razzaq Abd al-Wahid -- Shauqi Abi Shaqra -- Adunis -- Ali Ja'far al-Allaq -- Muhammad al-As'ad -- Abd-Allah al-Baraduni -- Saleem Barakat -- Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayyati -- Mohammad Bennis -- Sargon Boulus -- Mahmoud al-Buraikan -- Ahmad Dahbur -- Mahmoud Darwish -- Zuhur Dixon -- Amal Dunqul -- Salah Fa'iq -- Muhammad al-Faituri -- Muhammad al-Ghuzzi -- Ghazi al-Gosaibi -- Qasim Haddad -- Yasin Taha Hafiz -- Buland al-Haidari -- Unsi al-Haj -- Khalil Hawi -- Ahmad Abd al-Mu'ti Hijazi -- Rashid Husain -- Hasab al-Shaikh Ja'far -- Salma Khadra Jayyusi -- Shafiq al-Kamali -- Abd al-Karim Kassid -- Yusuf al-Khal -- Ali Abdallah Khalifa -- Khalil Khouri -- Muhammad al-Maghut -- Sami Mahdi -- Isam Mahfouz -- M.M. al-Majdhoub -- Nazik al-Mala'ika -- Khairi Mansour -- Abd al-'Aziz al-Maqalih -- Muhammad Afifi Matar -- Orkhan Muyassar -- Huda Na'mani -- Amjad Nasir -- Salah Niyazi -- Nizar Qabbani -- Samih al-Qasim -- Sayf al-Rahabi -- Fu'ad Rifqa -- Su'ad al-Mubarak al-Sabah -- Kamal Sabti -- Hameed Sa'id -- Yusuf al-Sa'igh -- Laila al-Sa'ih -- Saniyya Salih -- Mai Sayigh -- Tawfiq Sayigh -- Badr Shakir al-Sayyab -- Ali al-Sharqawi -- Abdallah al-Tayyib -- Khalil Touma -- Fadwa Tuqan -- Mamdouh Udwan -- Ahmad al-Mushari al-Udwani -- Al-Munsif al-Wahaybi -- Khalifa al-Wugayyan -- Sadi Yusuf -- Tawfiq Zayyad |
| Summary |
After centuries of oppressive Ottoman rule, the Arab world began to find new vitality and freedom in the twentieth century. The accompanying resurgence of creative expression is splendidly reflected in this definitive anthology of contemporary Arabic poetry, which spans the modern Arab world from the turn of the century to the present, from the Arab Gulf to Morocco. The editor, Salma Khadra Jayyusi, a renowned expert on modern Arabic literature, presents a through introduction to the works of more than ninety Arab poets. To create the best possible English translation, each selection has been translated first by a bilingual expert and then by an English-language poet, who creatively renders it into idiomatic English |
| Analysis |
Poetry in Arabic, 1945- - Anthologies - English texts |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [41]-42 |
| Subject |
Arabic poetry -- 20th century -- Translations into English.
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English poetry.
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| Author |
Jayyusi, Salma Khadra.
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| LC no. |
87000678 |
| ISBN |
0231052723 |
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