| Description |
xii, 252 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 249-252. |
| Contents |
Two voices / Gibrān Khalīl Gibrān -- Light / Amīn al-Rīḥānī -- My brother ; Autumn leaves ; Peace of mind ; Struggle / Mikhāʼīl Nuʻaymah -- Cryptic charms / Īlīyā Abū Māḍī -- Canto I: King in the air ; Canto VIII: Strewn leaves / Fawzī al-Maʻlūf -- Rose that died ; Nero / Khalīl Muṭrān -- Lust for death / Ilyās Abū Shabakah -- Fidelity / Albert Adīb -- Samra ; Palace of my beloved / Saʻīd ʻAql -- Death of roses ; Night ; Birth of the poet / Ṣalāḥ Labakī -- Old age ; Voyage / Yūsuf al-Khāl -- Mariner and the dervish ; Bridge / Khalīl Ḥāwī -- Dialogue ; Cup ; Rendezvous / Unsī al-Ḥājj -- Immortal liberty ; Flower seller / Aḥmad al-Ṣāfī al-Najafī -- Who am I? / Nāzik al-Malāʼikah -- Before the gate of God ; Burning ; For I am a stranger ; Ode to revolutionary Iraq ; City of Sinbad ; River and death / Badr Shākir al-Sayyāb -- Two poems to my son ʻAlī ; Book of poverty and revolution ; Village market ; Traveller without baggage / ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Bayātī -- Mailman ; False step ; Barrenness ; Old age / Buland al-Ḥaydarī -- Wecome ; Life / ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Shukrī -- Rustic song / ʻAlī Maḥmūd Ṭāhā -- In the shadow of the valley of death / Abū al-Qāsim al-Shābbī -- Kiriyalayson ; Love at St. Lazare / Lewis ʻAwaḍ -- Dreams of the ancient knight / Ṣalāḥ ʻAbd al-Ṣabūr -- Caption to a landscape / Aḥmad ʻAbd al-Muʻṭī Ḥijāzī -- To two unknown eyes ; Sad Saturday night / Muḥammad al-Faytūrī -- Woman and a statue ; Ruins / ʻUmar Abū Rīshah -- Whore ; Pregnant ; Brief love letter ; Bread, hashish and moonlight ; What value has the people whose tongue is tied? ; To a saint / Nizār Qabbānī -- Bird ; Gushing blood ; Martyr ; Dialogue ; Minaret ; West and East / ʻAlī Aḥmad Saʻīd (Adonis) -- From the doorstep to heaven ; Dream / Muḥammad al-Māghūṭ -- I won't sell his love / Fadwā Ṭūqān -- Elegy to the martyrs / Salmā al-Khaḍrā al-Jayyūsī -- Alarm ; Poem 22 ; Poem 23 ; And then? ; Sermon on the Mount / Tawfīq Ṣāyigh -- From a poem sequence ; In the deserts of exile / Jabrā Ibrāhīm Jabrā -- Pride and fury / Maḥmūd Darwīsh -- Palestinian / Hārūn Hāshim Rashīd. |
| Language |
English and Arabic. |
| Subject |
Arabic poetry -- 20th century -- Translations into English.
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| Added Author |
Khouri, Mounah Abdallah, compilor.
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Algar, Hamid, 1940- compilor.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Khouri, Mounah Abdallah. Anthology of modern Arabic poetry. Berkeley, University of California Press [1974] (OCoLC)577659255 |
| ISBN |
0520022343 |
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9780520022348 |
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