Without an alphabet, without a face : selected poems / by Saadi Youssef ; translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yūsuf, Saʻdī.

Contributor:

Mattawa, Khaled.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections. English

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Yūsuf, Saʻdī--Translations into English.

Yūsuf, Saʻdī.

Yūsuf, Saʻd.

Genre:

Translations.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxiv, 186 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, [2002]

Language Note:

Translated from the Arabic.

Summary:

This Iraq will reach the ends of the graveyard. It will bury its sons in open country generation 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 poetry, "Youssef's poetry abounds with the sights, smells, colors, and movement of life around him, depicting scenes of great familiarity and intimacy. This is a great achievement in the face of the rage and fury and technical complexities of much of the other poetry written by his contemporaries." Beautifully translated by Khaled Mattawa, Graywolf is proud to present this vital voice to the United States.

Other Format:

Online version: Yūsuf, Saʻdī. Poems. English. Selections. Without an alphabet, without a face.

ISBN:

155597371X

9781555973711

OCLC:

51900075

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