| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xiii, 460 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Jusoor ; 11/12 |
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Jusoor (Series) ; 11/12.
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| Note |
"A Jusoor book." |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Contents |
The way back / Diana Abu-Jaber -- The day ; Aftermath ; The window's oven / Nuar Alsadir -- Innocent bystanders ; The origins of western love ; The Egyptian movie star / Samuel Hazo -- Sixty minutes ; Daughter of Arabs / Elmaz Abi Nader -- The lower organs of Beirut / Munir Akash -- Freeways and rest houses ; Ode to Mejnoon ; Gilgamesh / Khaled Mattawa -- New directions : Arab American writing at century's end ; Poppies ; Departure ; Seabones / Lisa Suhair Majaj -- The Bullet Collection / Patricia Sarrafian Ward -- No statues were built in the camp ; The love song of Ibrahim Abdelmadi ; Juxtaposition ; Soliloquy ; Request / Sharif S. Elmusa -- from My cancer journal / Evelyn Accad -- Long overdue / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Between words ; Inheritance ; We're history / David Williams -- Poetry as homeland ; A butterfly gaze ; Escape / Nathalie Handal -- Like a Christmas tree / Etel Adnan -- Is this devastation for me alone? ; The masks of the crane / Amira El-Zein -- The crane / Halim Barakat -- Ghost songs / Kathryn Abdul-Baki -- The blind beekeeper / Daniel Moore (Abdal Hayy) -- Remember Vaughn Monroe? / Evelyn Shakir -- Fraudulent acts ; From a distance born / Pauline Kaldas -- Picture us / Paula Haydar -- Hamza Aweiwi : a shoe salesman in Hebron ; The pregnancy ; Camp Dearborn / Hayan Charara -- Twentieth ode ; April 5/97 / Sekeena Shaben -- Poem for Countee Cullen ; Umar : an affirmation two hours later ; Gravity / Saladin Ahmed -- My body is not your battleground ; More than one way to break fast ; Read / Mohja Kahf -- Perfect gallows ; Saltimbanque ; The menaced ventriloquist / Walid Bitar -- Five minutes / Dunya Mikhail -- The scream 98 / Hasan Newash -- The lessons of Leila / Penny Johnson -- A tree with a dream / Salah El-Moncef -- Back in the black / Joe Geha -- Heifers and heroes ; October's daughter / Suheir Hammad -- There is no love here ; Every poem a prayer / Mechelle Zarou -- Ode 124 ; Gacela of the terrifying presence ; The hunt ; Without rhyme or reason ; To a lady ; Yazid to his father Moawiah / Nadia Benabid -- The Zaire / Sara Nadia Rashad -- Like a rain / Hakim Archletta -- Embers and ashes / Hisham Sharabi. |
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Fragrance from the garden. We will choose Sophocles / Mahmoud Darwish -- The song of songs / Tawfiq Al-Hakim -- The shadow and the echo / Yusuf Habashi Al-Ashqar -- Mkhammas Mardûd in Lebanese Zajal / Adnan Haydar -- Taha Husain's failure / George Tarabishi -- In Mona's garden / Sarah Rogers. |
| Subject |
American literature -- Arab American authors.
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Arab Americans -- Literary collections.
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American literature -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
ʻAkash, Munīr.
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Mattawa, Khaled.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Post-Gibran anthology of new Arab American writing. 1st ed. West Bethesda, Md. : Kitab ; Syracuse, NY : Distributed by Syracuse University Press, 1999 (OCoLC)607636960 |
| ISBN |
0965203131 |
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9780965203135 |
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