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A Time Between Ashes & Roses
Adonis
Paperback - $30.95
In this noted anthology, the poet Adonis evokes the wisdom of Whitman's Leaves of Grass (which he liberally excerpts and remolds), the modernism of William Carlos Williams, and the haunting urban imagery of Baudelaire, Cavafy, and Lorca. Three long p ...
The Pages of Day and Night
Adonis
Paperback - $24.95
Describing Adonis as a "poet of the beyond, of restlessness and questioning, a seeker after the eternal moment of freshness and the time of possibilities", the critic Kamal Abu Deeb goes on to say, "Both as a theorist and a poet, Adonis is the writer ...
Agnon's Alef Bet
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Hardcover - $31.95
Known for his ability to evoke the rich imagery of the Bible and ancient Israel, Nobel Laureate S. Y. Agnon created a witty poem for each letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Imaginative illustrations and dual-language Hebrew-English text make Agnon's Alef ...
Love, Death, and Exile : Poems Translated from Arabic
Abdul Wahab Al-Bayati
Paperback - $33.95
Called "a major innovator in his art form" by The New York Times, Baghdad-born poet Abdul Wahab Al-Bayati broke with over fifteen centuries of Arabic poetic tradition to write in free verse and became world famous in the process. Love, Death, and Exi ...
Scattered Crumbs
Muhsin Al-Ramli
Paperback - $26.95
AN IRAQI FAMILY TRIES TO SURVIVE BOTH A DICTATOR AND A WAR. Set in an Iraqi village during the Iran-Iraq war, Scattered Crumbs critiques a totalitarian dictatorship through the stories of an impoverished peasant family. A father, a fierce supporter o ...
So What : New & Selected Poems, 1971-2005
Taha Muhammad Ali
Paperback - $27.95
"Taha Muhammad Ali speaks with an emotional forthrightness. . . . He has developed a style that seems both ancient and new, deceptively simple and movingly direct."-The Washington Post
Taha Muhammad Ali is a revered Palestinian poet whose ...
Open Closed Open : Poems
Yehuda Amichai
Hardcover - $44.95
Amichai writes of the language of love, and tea with roasted almonds, of desire and love. Of a Jewish cemetery whose groundskeeper is an expert on flowers and seasons of the year, but no expert on buried Jews; of Russian shirts embroidered in the col ...
Open Closed Open : Poems
Yehuda Amichai
Paperback - $21.95
In poems marked by tenderness and mischief, humanity and humor, Yehuda Amichai breaks open the grand diction of revered Jewish verses and casts the light of his own experi ence upon them. Here he tells of history, a nation, the self, love, and r ...
The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai
Yehuda Amichai
Paperback - $28.95
"Yehuda Amichai's splendid poems, refined and cast in the desperate foundries of the Middle East, where life and faith are always at stake, exhibit a majestic and Biblical range of the topography of the soul."--Anthony Hecht