Chronicles of Majnun Layla and Selected Poems

Informationen zum Autor Qassim Haddad is a Bahraini poet, notable within the Arab world for his free verse poetry. He has published more than a dozen collections of poetry and works of critical prose, and a memoir. His poems have been translated into several languages including German, English, and French. Ferial Ghazoul is professor of English and comparative literature at the American University in Cairo. She is the editor of Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics. John Verlenden is a writing instructor in the Department of Rhetoric and Composition at the American University in Cairo. He is the co-translator, along with Ferial Ghazoul, of Rama and the Dragon: An Egyptian Novel. Klappentext Brings together Haddad's seminal work and a considerable selection of poems from his oeuvre, stretching over forty years. Zusammenfassung Brings together in one volume Haddad’s seminal work and a considerable selection of poems from his oeuvre, stretching over forty years. The selected poems reveal Haddad’s playful yet profound meditations. A powerful lyric poet, Haddad juxtaposes classical and modern symbols, and mixes the old with the new, the sensual with the sacred, and the common with the extraordinary.

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• Authors: Qassim Haddad, Qassim/ Ghazoul Haddad
• Assisted by: Ferial Ghazoul (Translation), John Verlenden (Translation)
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2014
• EAN: 9780815610373
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-1037-3
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Middle East Literature in Translation; Middle East Literature in Tran; Middle East Literature in Tran; Middle East Literature in Translation
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies