9780375712432-0375712437-Arabic Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

Arabic Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

ISBN-13: 9780375712432
ISBN-10: 0375712437
Edition: Bilingual
Author: Marlé Hammond
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Format: Hardcover 288 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780375712432
ISBN-10: 0375712437
Edition: Bilingual
Author: Marlé Hammond
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Format: Hardcover 288 pages

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Arabic Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) (ISBN-13: 9780375712432 and ISBN-10: 0375712437), written by authors Marlé Hammond, was published by Everyman's Library in 2014. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Arabic Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $3.14.

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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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