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Books by Khaled Mattawa
  | | Fugitive Atlas Poems (Paperback) by Khaled Mattawa Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2020 by Graywolf Press ISBN-13: 978-1-64445-037-6, ISBN: 1-64445-037-2 "In this exquisite collection, Mattawa asks how we are expected to endure our times, how we inherit the journeys of our ancestors, and how we let loose those we love into an unpredictable world." |
 | | Tocqueville by Khaled Mattawa, Phillip Metres Paperback, 82 Pages, Published 2019 by New Issues Poetry And Prose ISBN-13: 978-1-936970-61-2, ISBN: 1-936970-61-9 "“When I first read Khaled Mattawa’s Tocqueville some years ago, it rewired my brain and pummeled my heart. A daring meditation on what it means to be a poet and a citizen at the center of American empire, Tocqueville was an astonishing departure from Mattawa’s previous lyrically driven work, declaring that it no longer suffices to sing— even to sing of dark times, as Bertolt Brecht proposed. Reading these poems today, in this timely sec ..." |
 | | Mare Nostrum (Quarternote Chapbook Series) by Khaled Mattawa Paperback, 32 Pages, Published 2019 by Sarabande Books ISBN-13: 978-1-946448-36-1, ISBN: 1-946448-36-2 "“On the bridges to those slippery worlds, we are wrapped in gold foil, disease free. Who is saving whom? The question’s not stated, only implied.” In 2013, the Italian government implemented Mare Nostrum, an operation intended to limit immigration from Africa and the Middle East to European countries. For the refugees, the journeys were harrowing, often ending in shipwrecks or imprisonment, and the arrivals were wracked with uncertainty ..." |
 | | Adonis Selected Poems (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) by Khaled Adonis/ Mattawa, Khaled Mattawa Adunis, Khaled Mattawa Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2012 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-18125-8, ISBN: 0-300-18125-6 "The first major career-spanning collection of the poems of Adonis, widely acknowledged as the most important poet working in Arabic today Born in Syria in 1930, Adonis is one of the most celebrated poets of the Arabic-speaking world. His poems have earned international acclaim, and his influence on Arabic literature has been likened to that of T. S. Eliot’s on English-language verse. This volume serves as the first comprehensive survey ..." |
 | | How Long Have You Been With Us? Essays on Poetry (Poets On Poetry) by Khaled Mattawa Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2016 by University Of Michigan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-472-05329-2, ISBN: 0-472-05329-9 " A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation. “Like the myriad companions and comrades that he summons from their exile, Khaled Mattawa is himself a ‘poet-stranger.’ In the essays, ‘written in a poet’s prose,’ collected in How Long Have You Been With Us, Mattawa ev ..." |
 | | Tocqueville(1st Edition) (New Issues Poetry & Prose) by Khaled Mattawa Paperback, 71 Pages, Published 2010 by New Issues Poetry & Prose ISBN-13: 978-1-930974-90-6, ISBN: 1-930974-90-6 "Poetry. "In his masterful fourth collection, Khaled Mattawa is concerned, above all, with the ramifications of a new global culture that most American poets have thus far ignored and neglected, partly out of incomprehension, partly out of fear. By setting himself against such timidity, Mattawa offers his most sustained and experimental reckoning with matters of cultural and social witness. TOCQUEVILLE is part personal lyric, part jeremi ..." |
 | | Zodiac of Echoes(1st Edition) by Mr Khaled Mattawa, Patrick Donnelly Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 2003 by Ausable Press ISBN-13: 978-1-931337-16-8, ISBN: 1-931337-16-0 "Rafaa goes to Alexandria once a year to remember his joyful youth. His friend was being beaten by a gang, and to defend him, your nephew stabbed one of them in the shoulder. Her third child's right arm ended at the elbow. The old house is ..." |
 | | Dinarzad's Children(2nd Edition) An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Fiction by Pauline Kaldas, Khaled Mattawa Paperback, 380 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Arkansas Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55728-912-4, ISBN: 1-55728-912-3 "The first edition of Dinarzad’s Children was a groundbreaking and popular anthology that brought to light the growing body of short fiction being written by Arab Americans. This expanded edition includes sixteen new stories thirty in alland new voices and is now organized into sections that invite readers to enter the stories from a variety of directions. Here are stories that reveal the initial adjustments of immigrants, the challe ..." |
 | | Without an Alphabet, Without a Face Selected Poems by Saadi Youssef, Khaled Mattawa, Saʻdī Yūsuf Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2002 by Graywolf Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-371-1, ISBN: 1-55597-371-X "This Iraq will reach the ends of the graveyard.It will bury its sons in open countrygeneration after generation,and it will forgive its despot...It will not be the Iraq that once held the name.—from "A Vision"Living his life in exile—a series of forced departures from numerous countries—Iraqi poet Saadi Youssef also writes outside the long-standing forms of traditional Arabic poetry. In the words of Salma Khadra, a critic of Arabic poet ..." |
 | | Invitation to a Secret Feast(1st Edition) Selected Poems by Joumana Haddad, Khaled Mattawa Paperback, 79 Pages, Published 2008 by Tupelo Press ISBN-13: 978-1-932195-62-0, ISBN: 1-932195-62-9 "Poetry. Translation. Joumana Haddad, an unrivaled poetry star in Arabic (and many other languages) famous for her deeply passionate poetic visions, has finally given the English-speaking world entry into her luscious work. In these gorgeous translations, her voice remains sumptuous and alluring, carefully drawing the reader in before unveiling soulful insight and wisdom. This is Lebanese-born Joumana Haddad's fifth collection of poetry ..." |
 | | Concerto al-Quds (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) by Khaled Mattawa Adunis Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2017 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-19764-8, ISBN: 0-300-19764-0 "A cri de cœur 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 M ..." |
 | | Dinarzad's Children(1st Edition) An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American FictionAn Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Fiction by Pauline Kaldas, Khaled Mattawa Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2004 by University Of Arkansas Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55728-781-6, ISBN: 1-55728-781-3 "In The Thousand and One Nights it is ShahrazadÂ's sister, Dinarzad, who each night asks for a story. This collection of twenty-four modern tales by eighteen authors offers up a mix of previously published and new works, creating a literary road map to Arab American literature today.Here authors of Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian, Egyptian, and Libyan descent, some with established reputations, others new young writers, tell tales about M ..." |
 | | Miracle Maker(1st Edition) The Selected Poems of Fadhil Al-Azzawi (Lannan Translations Selections.) by Mr Khaled Mattawa, Fadhil Al-Azzawi, Fāḍil ʻazzāwī, Fadil Azzawi Paperback, 130 Pages, Published 2003 by Boa Editions Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-929918-45-4, ISBN: 1-929918-45-3 "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, h ..." |
 | | Beyond Memory An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Creative Nonfiction by Pauline Kaldas, Khaled Mattawa Paperback, 250 Pages, Published 2020 by Univ Of Arkansas Pr ISBN-13: 978-1-68226-125-5, ISBN: 1-68226-125-5 "An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Creative Nonfiction Pauline Kaldas, Khaled Mattawa. HAYAN CHARARA. Going. Places. On the morning of September ... admission fee, and rode the elevator to. 5. 5. Hayan Charara-Going Places." |
 | | Shepherd of Solitude Selected Poems by Amjad Nasser, Khaled Mattawa, Amjad Nāṣir Paperback, 175 Pages, Published 2010 by Banipal Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-9549666-8-3, ISBN: 0-9549666-8-6 "First poetry collection by London-based Jordanian poet in English translation by foremost Arabic poetry translator."With his unusually wide and expressive range Amjad Nasser unites the varied facets of his experience in a discourse at once perceptive, critical, tender, and ironically comic." Alfred CornAt times a powerfully existential chronicle of exile, Shepherd of Solitude conjures a new understanding of Arab life, from war-torn Beir ..." |
 | | Ismailia Eclipse Poems by Khaled Mattawa Paperback, 93 Pages, Published 1995 by Sheep Meadow Press,U.S. ISBN-13: 978-1-878818-44-7, ISBN: 1-878818-44-9 |
 | | Adonis(1st Edition) Selected Poems (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) by Khaled Mattawa Adonis Hardcover, 432 Pages, Published 2010 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-15306-4, ISBN: 0-300-15306-6 |
 | | These are not Oranges, My Love by Iman Mersal, Mr Khaled Mattawa Paperback, 140 Pages, Published 2008 by Sheep Meadow Press ISBN-13: 978-1-931357-54-8, ISBN: 1-931357-54-4 "Iman Mersal's singing of the dark shimmers; her charting of the cold warms at least this heart. She shows us how love exists against itself, how the human heart is often in conflict with its own nature, and how this imperfect state survives its own imperfections and rises to something resembling joy. Khaled Mattawa's translation should not only be commended on its fidelity, but its exceptional talent and sensitivity. He has once more co ..." |
 | | A Map of Signs and Scents(1st Edition) New and Selected Poems, 1979–2014 (Curbstone) by Amjad Nasser, Fady Joudah, Khaled Mattawa Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 2016 by Curbstone Books 2 ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-3365-5, ISBN: 0-8101-3365-2 "Featuring poems from earlier collections of Amjad Nasser’s work and many newer uncollected poems never made available in English, A Map of Signs and Scents introduces the work of an important Arabic poet to a broader contemporary Anglophone readership. This special annotation edition helps readers view the multifaceted contexts within which Nasser has created his award-winning poems." |
 | | Questions and Their Retinue(Updated) Selected Poems, 1972–1994 by Hatif Janabi, Khaled Mattawa Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 1996 by University Of Arkansas Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55728-432-7, ISBN: 1-55728-432-6 "Janabi's poems deal with war, death, perception, and truth, drawing from his family life, his exile in Poland, violence in Iraq, and his experience in the United States. " |
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