Arabic poems : a bilingual edition / edited by Marlé Hammond.

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  • English
  • Arabic
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New York : Everyman's Library, 2014.
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287 pages ; 17 cm.

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    A bilingual anthology of poems from the sixth century to the present, Arabic Poems is a one-of-a-kind showcase of a fascinating literary tradition. The Arabic poetic legacy is as vast as it is deep, spanning a period of fifteen centuries in regions from Morocco to Iraq. Themes of love, nature, religion, and politics recur in works drawn from the pre-Islamic oral tradition through poems anticipating the recent Arab Spring. Editor Marlé Hammond has selected more than fifty 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, medieval Andalusian poet Ibn Zaydun, the mystical poet Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya, and the influential Egyptian Romantic Ahmad Zaki Abu Shadi. Here too are literary giants of the past century: Khalil Jibran, author of the best-selling 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.
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    Bilingual anthology of classical and modern Arabic poems, from the 6th century to the present, with English and Arabic on facing pages.
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    Includes bibliographical references.
    ISBN
    • 9780375712432 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    • 0375712437 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    • 9781841597980
    • 1841597988
    LCCN
    2014016346
    OCLC
    890626294
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    • 40023903297
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