| Miracle Maker: The Selected Poems of Fadhil Al-Azzawi Contributor(s): Al-Azzawi, Fadhil (Author), Mattawa, Khaled (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1929918445 ISBN-13: 9781929918447 Publisher: BOA Editions OUR PRICE: $21.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2003 Annotation: This collection features poems from Al-Azzawi's 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 Janabi's "Questions" and "Their Retinue" and Saddi Youssef's "Without an Alphabet, Without a Face," |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Middle Eastern - Literary Criticism | African - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - General |
| Dewey: 892.716 |
| LCCN: 2003055872 |
| Series: Lannan Translations Selection |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 6" W x 9.22" (0.73 lbs) 130 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection features poems from Al-Azzawi's 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 Janabi's Questions and Their Retinue and Saddi Youssef's Without an Alphabet, Without a Face. |