Miracle Maker: The Selected Poems of Fadhil Al-Azzawi

This collection features poems from Al-Azzawis six previous Arabic poetry collections and many new poems. Springing from classical Arabic poetry, his poems speak to political exile, -cultural marginalization, and Middle Eastern and Western histories and mythologies. Al-Azzawi employs -humor, melancholy and tenderness to celebrate new worlds of possibility.
Fadhil Al-Azzawi was born in 1940 in Kirkuk, Iraq. By the time he was -fifteen, he was publishing poems in the leading Arab literary magazines in Beirut and Baghdad. Al-Azzawi -currently lives in London.
Khaled Mattawa (Translator) is the author of a -collection of poetry, "Ismailia" Eclipse, and the translator of two books of contemporary Arabic poetry, Hatif Janabis "Questions" and "Their Retinue" and Saddi Youssefs "Without an Alphabet, Without a Face,"

Product details

• Authors: Fadhil Al-Azzawi, Fadil Azzawi
• Assisted by: Khaled Mattawa (Translation)
• Publisher: BOA Editions
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2003
• EAN: 9781929918447
• ISBN: 978-1-929918-44-7
• No. of pages: 130
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 234 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 331 g
• Series: Lannan Translations Selections; Lannan Translations Selections; Lannan Translations Selection
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures