A crack in the wall : new Arab poetry / edited by Margaret Obank and Samuel Shimon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Obank, Margaret.

Shimon, Samuel, 1956-

Series:

Middle Eastern poetry

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic poetry--20th century--Translations into English.

Arabic poetry.

Civilization, Arab--Poetry.

Civilization, Arab.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

285 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Saqi Books, 2001.

Language Note:

Translated from the Arabic.

Summary:

This selection of new Arab poetry highlights the work of different generations of poets from around the Arab world -- men and women from as far as Morocco to the West and Iraq to the East.

Their writings span the last two decades of the twentieth century, but the new forms, styles and subject matters they are experimenting with translate into a departure from the old and an explosion of new poetry that is innovative, expressive and daring.

This is also a personal journey for most as they explore their lives, surroundings and ethnicity -- often multiple -- and cultural complexities, with an intensity of images and emotions.

Illustrating this is the fact that some poems were not even written in the 'native' Arabic but in French or English, demonstrating the multi-cultural influences which have come to shape modern Arab poetry this century.

Contents:

Hoda Ablan 15

Fawziyya Abu Khalid 19

Etel Adnan 23

Seema Atalla 27

Fadhil al-Azzawi 30

Basheer al-Baker 38

Ahmed Barakat 40

Tahar Bekri 42

Tahar Ben Jelloun 44

Mohammed Bennis 51

Mohammed Bentalha 58

Abbas Beydhoun 60

Faraj Bou al-Isha 68

Sargon Boulus 70

Mahmoud Darwish 78

Mohammed Dib 87

Nujum al-Ghanim 92

Qassim Haddad 95

Nathalie Handal 101

Mohammed al-Harthi 104

Mohammad Afif al-Hussainy 107

Abdel Kader el-Janabi 110

Hatif Janabi 115

Nouri al-Jarrah 119

Mohja Kahf 124

Ahmed Kattouah 127

Waleed Khazendar 130

Venus Khoury-Ghata 136

Adel Khuzam 140

Wafa's Lamrani 142

Fatima Mahmoud 146

Salman Masalha 149

Maram al-Massri 152

Khaled Mattawa 156

Bassem al-Mereiby 162

Dunya Mikhail 165

Zakaria Mohammed 169

Adnan Mohsen 175

Amel Moussa 179

Saadia Mufarreh 183

Khaled Najar 186

Hassan Najmi 191

Amjad Nasser 196

Salwa al-Neimi 202

Salah Niazi 204

Mostafa Nissabouri 207

Saif al-Rahbi 214

Fuad Rifqa 220

Sharif al-Rubai 228

Wadih Sa'adeh 231

Amina Said 237

Hilmy Salem 241

Abdulilah Salhi 244

Sadiq al-Sayegh 247

Hashim Shafiq 250

Fadhil Sultani 254

Mubarak Wassat 257

Abdo Wazen 259

Sa'adi Youssef 264

Abdallah Zreka 273.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [282]-285).

ISBN:

0863569846

0863563295

OCLC:

53099262