Description
| Product ID: | 9781841597980 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | DE |
| Series: | Everyman's Library POCKET POETS |
| Title: | Arabic Poems |
| Authors: | Author: Marle Hammond |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Subjects: | Poetry anthologies (various poets), Poetry anthologies (various poets) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The Arabic poetic legacy is as vast as it is deep, spanning a period of fifteen centuries in regions from Morocco to Iraq. 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. 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 Marlé 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Everyman's Library |
| Publisher Name: | Everyman |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2014-06-26 |
