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How long have you been with us? : essays on poetry
\"\"As a writer starting out in the early 1990s,\" Khaled Mattawa begins \"Meet the Poet-Stranger,\" the essay that opens this collection, \"I wanted the company of fellow immigrants who worked in the language of their adopted homelands, chiseling away at their exile and making a home for themselves in poetry.\" Throughout his career, Mattawa's thoughtful and politically astute considerations of what it means to create as a \"poet-stranger,\" particularly for those of Middle Eastern heritage, have been steeped in his personal experience as a Libyan-American writer. The essays included in this volume cover Mattawa's approach toward translating contemporary and classical Arabic poetry, the personal and international politics of poetry, and the difficulty of representing one's own family history in one's own writing. The concluding piece, \"Poems and Days (A Reader's Memoir),\" presents his deep engagement with the work of other poets during his formative years as a writer\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Mahmoud Darwish
In Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet's Art and His Nation, Mattawa pays tributeto one of the most celebrated and well-read poets of our era. Withdetailed knowledge of Arabic verse and a firm grounding in Palestinianhistory, Mattawa explores the ways in which Darwish's aesthetics haveplayed a crucial role in shaping and maintaining Palestinian identity andculture through decades of warfare, attrition, exile, and land confiscation.Mattawa chronicles the evolution of his poetry, from a young poet ignitingresistance in occupied land to his decades in exile where his work grew inambition and scope. In doing so, Mattawa reveals Darwish's verse to beboth rooted to its place of longing and to transcend place, as it reaches forthe universal and the human.
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Concerto al-Quds = Kهunshهirtهu al-Quds
\"A cri de c¶ur or fully imagined poem on the myth and history of Jerusalem/Al-Quds from the author revered as the greatest living Arabic poet. At the age of eighty-six, Adonis, an Arabic poet with Syrian origins, a critic, an essayist, and a devoted secularist, has come out of retirement to pen an extended, innovative poem on Jerusalem/Al-Quds. It is a hymn to a troubled city embattled by the conflicting demands of Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Adonis's city, as a coveted land, ought to suggest the universal love of humanity; as a land of tragedy, a place of contending history and beliefs, and a locus of bitterness, conflict, hatred, rivalry, and blood. Wrapping multiple voices, historical references, and political viewpoints within his ecstatic lyricism, Adonis has created a provocative work of unique beauty and profound wisdom, beautifully rendered in English by award-winning poet Khaled Mattawa.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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