Miracle maker : selected poems of Fadhil Al-Azzawi / translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

ʻAzzāwī, Fāḍil.

Contributor:

Mattawa, Khaled.

Series:

Lannan translations selection series

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections. English

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

ʻAzzāwī, Fāḍil--Translations into English.

ʻAzzāwī, Fāḍil.

ʻAzzāwī, Fāḍil.

Physical Description:

143 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, 2003.

Summary:

This collection features poems from Al-Azzawi's six previous Arabic poetry collections and many new poems. Springing from classical Arabic poetry, his poems speak to political exile, -cultural marginalization, and Middle Eastern and Western histories and mythologies. Al-Azzawi employs -humor, melancholy and tenderness to celebrate new worlds of possibility.

Fadhil Al-Azzawi was born in 1940 in Kirkuk, Iraq. By the time he was -fifteen, he was publishing poems in the leading Arab literary magazines in Beirut and Baghdad. Al-Azzawi -currently lives in London.

Khaled Mattawa (Translator) is the author of a -collection of poetry, "Ismailia" Eclipse, and the translator of two books of contemporary Arabic poetry, Hatif Janabi's "Questions" and "Their Retinue" and Saddi Youssef's "Without an Alphabet, Without a Face."

ISBN:

1929918445

1929918453

OCLC:

52948604

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