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.
Publisher: EverymanISBN: 9781841597980Number of pages: 256Weight: 253 gDimensions: 165 x 114 x 20 mm
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