"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 ..."
Tocqueville(1st Edition) (New Issues Poetry & Prose) by KhaledMattawa 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 ..."
"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 ..."
Adonis(1st Edition) Selected Poems (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) by KhaledMattawa Adonis Hardcover, 432 Pages, Published 2010 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-15306-4, ISBN: 0-300-15306-6