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A map of signs and scents : new and selected poems, 1979-2014 / Amjad Nasser ; translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah and Khaled Mattawa.
Van Pelt Library PJ7852.A677 A2 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nāṣir, Amjad, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections. English
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 161 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Curbstone Books/Northwestern University Press, 2016.
- Contents:
- From Praise for another cafe, 1979
- Gates to the sky, but they are narrow
- From Climbing the mountain since Gilead, 1981
- Song
- Grandfather
- Flower
- Shoes
- The bleating of copper
- From Shepherds of solitude, 1986
- Exile
- Drums
- Bent branches
- Loneliness
- Fever
- Shade plants
- Planets for Asia
- Shepherds of solitude
- From The strangers arrive, 1990
- Chance
- The strangers arrive
- The impending hour
- Lines to Joseph
- The lion
- From Joy to all who see you, 1994
- Invocation for entering the house
- The scent reminds
- A rose of black lace
- Invocation
- The sun flung its golden incisors at me
- The lover's ascent
- From Ascent of breath, 1997
- A dusk foretold
- Ascent of breath
- From Whenever he saw a sign, 1998
- Meritocracy
- Haiku breaths
- A mark
- Alexander's gold
- Kismet
- Appearance
- Father's sleep
- The edges of day
- From Life like a broken narrative, 2004
- The house after her death
- Old radio
- Bridges
- Souvenir
- The ring from Al-Qayrawan
- Suhrawardi's handkerchief
- A postponed poem for New York
- Dog's tail
- 03-03-03
- Something like anger, like betrayal
- Clay tablets
- Preparing for flight
- The phases of the moon in London
- Mimicking Mark Antony
- An ordinary conversation about cancer
- Neighbors
- The stars of London
- Cavafy's mask
- New uncollected poems, 2008-2014
- Petra: the concealed rose
- If you're passing through Rome
- Don't do as Romans do
- On the way to you
- By chance as well
- Light.
- Notes:
- Translated from the Arabic.
- ISBN:
- 9780810133655
- 0810133652
- OCLC:
- 946725918
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