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,"

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Fadhil Al-Azzawi, Fadil Azzawi
• Con la collaborazione di: Khaled Mattawa (Traduzione)
• Editore: BOA Editions
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.11.2003
• EAN: 9781929918447
• ISBN: 978-1-929918-44-7
• Pagine: 130
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 234 mm x 14 mm
• Peso: 331 g
• Serie: Lannan Translations Selections; Lannan Translations Selections; Lannan Translations Selection
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Altre lingue / altre letterature