Iraqi poetry today / edited by Daniel Weissbort ; guest editor, Saadi A. Simawe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Simawe, Saadi, editor.

Weissbort, Daniel, editor.

Series:

Modern poetry in translation. New series ; no. 19.

Modern poetry in translation. New series ; no. 19

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic poetry--Iraq--Translations into English.

Arabic poetry--20th century.

Arabic poetry.

Iraq.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

288 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : King's College, University of London, [2003]

Summary:

For two decades, since the Iraq-Iran war in 1980, Iraq has been the focus of numerous political, economic, sociological, military, and geopolitical studies. However, very little has been published on the Iraqi literary tradition. Modern Iraq has produced a highly complex literature of survival in response to various realities of oppression and to challenges of modernism.

Translators include Naomi Shibab Nye, Ellen Dore Watson, Daniel Weissbort, and Ferial Ghazoul.

"Dr. Saadi Simawe" guest-edited the pioneering Palestine/Israel issue of "Modern Poetry in Translation (No. 14)," and three years ago guest-edited a special issue of "Arab Studies Quarterly" on modern Iraqi literature. He is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and American Studies, Grinnell University.

Contents:

Kurdish Poetry / Muhamad Tawfiq Ali 9

Poets

Mahdi Muhammed Ali / tr. Salaam Yousif 12

Sinan Anton / tr. the poet 15

Fadhil Assultani / tr. Saadi A Simawe, Raghid Nahhas, Melissa L Brown 18

Fadhil al-Azzawi / tr. Saadi A Simawe, Ralph Savarese, Melissa L Brown, Salaam Yousif 24

Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayyati / tr. Farouk Abdel Wahab, Najat Rahman, Carolina Hotchandani 41

Bekes (Faiq Abdulla Beg) / tr. Salah Ahmed Baban, Abdul Kadir Said Ferhadi 59

Bekes Jr (Sherko Faiq) / tr. Muhamad Tawfiq Ali 62

Mahmoud al-Braikan / tr. Saadi A Simawe, Ralph Savarese, Ellen Dore Watson 64

Goran (Abdula Sulaiman Abdula Beg) / tr. Abdul Kadir Said Ferhadi 69

Gzar Hantoosh / tr. Saadi A Simawe, Ellen Dore Watson 73

Bulland al-Haydari / tr. Hussein Kadhim, Christopher Merrill 78

Ahmed Herdi / tr. Muhamad Tawfiq Ali 90

Fereydun Refiq Hilmi / tr. Muhamad Tawfiq Ali 91

Lamiah Abbas Imara / tr. Basima Bezirgan, Elizabeth Fernea 92

Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri / tr. Terri DeYoung 94

Jigerkhwen (Sheikh Mus Hasan Muhamad) / tr. Muhamad Tawfiq Ali 100

Jamal Juma'h / tr. Salaam Yousif, Emily Howard 101

Fawzi Karim / tr. Saadi A Simawe, Chuck Miller 105

Abd al-Karim Kassid / tr. Saadi A Simawe, Chuck Miller 109

Shakir Li'aibi / tr. Saadi A Simawe, Ralph Savarese 114

Sami Mahdi / tr. Ferial J Ghazoul 117

Nazik al-Mala'ika / tr. Basima Bezirgan, Elizabeth Fernea, Ferial J Ghazoul, Ibtisam S Barakat, Saleh Alyafai, Jenna Abdul 119

Dunya Mikhail / tr. Salaam Yousif, Liz Winslow 129

Murad Mikha'il / tr. Sadok Masliyah, Christina Coyle 138

Sajidah al-Musawi / tr. Basima Bezirgan, Elizabeth Fernea 146

Awad Nasir / tr. Saadi A Simawe, Daniel Weissbort, Ralph Savarese 148

Muzaffar al-Nawwab / tr. Carol Bardenstein, Saadi A Simawe 151

Salah Niazi / tr. Saadi A Simawe, Melissa L Brown 186

Abdula Peshew / tr. Muhamad Tawfiq Ali 192

Abd al-Rahim Salih al-Rahim / tr. Saadi A Simawe, Ralph Savarese, Daniel Weissbort 194

Yousif al-Sa'igh / tr. Saadi A Simawe, Chuck Miller, Ralph Savarese 198

Aziz al-Samawi / tr. Alex Bellem 204

Shakir al-Samawi / tr. Saadi A Simawe, Chuck Miller 216

Sadiq al-Saygh / tr. Saadi A Simawe, Salaam Yousif, Emily Howard, Ralph Savarese 219

Badr Shakir al-Sayyab / tr. Ibtisam S Barakat, Mustapha Kamal, Ralph Savarese 222

Sheikh Selman / tr. Muhamad Tawfiq Ali 227

Hashim Shafiq / tr. Saadi A Simawe, Ralph Savarese, Ellen Dore Watson, Melissa L Brown 228

Ronny Someck / tr. Vivian Eden 233

Jawad Yaqoob / tr. Saadi A Simawe, Chuck Miller 237

S'adi Yusuf / tr. Khaled Mattawa 240

Essay

The Boundless Poet / Daniel Reynolds 256

Review

Muhammad Afifi Matar, Quartet of Joy / Saadi A Simawe, Carolina Hotchandani 260.

ISBN:

095338246X

OCLC:

52083955