Tocqueville by KhaledMattawa, 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 KhaledMattawa 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 ..."
How Long Have You Been With Us? Essays on Poetry (Poets On Poetry) by KhaledMattawa 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 ..."
Concerto al-Quds (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) by KhaledMattawa 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 ..."
"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."
"Marking seventy years of displacement and occupation in Palestine, Mizna presents The Palestine Issue, centering the Palestinian struggle for liberation and the rich literature it has spurred, guest edited by playwright and poet Ismail ..."
" As a writer starting out in the early 1990s, Khaled Mattawa begins Meet the Poet-Stranger, the essay that opens this collection, I wanted the company of fellow immigrants who worked in the language of their adopted homelands, chiseling away at their exile and making a home for themselves in poetry. Throughout his career, Mattawa s thoughtful and politically astute considerations of what it means to create as a poet-stranger, particular ..."
Mare Nostrum by KhaledMattawa 36 Pages, Published 2019 by Sarabande Books ISBN-13: 978-1-946448-37-8, ISBN: 1-946448-37-0
"Here, the poet Khaled Mattawa conjures a pointed, incantatory account of the refugee experience in the Mediterranean."
"In this exhibition catalogue, experts, art theoreticians, anthropologists and urban scholars from Libya, Egypt and Syria report on artistic interventions in their countries and critically reflect on the role of art in periods of political transformation."