How long have you been with us? : essays on poetry / Khaled Mattawa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mattawa, Khaled.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Series:

Poets on poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

American poetry.

American poetry--21st century--History and criticism.

American literature--Arab American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

English literature--Arab authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--English-speaking countries.

Arab Americans in literature.

Arabs in literature.

English literature--Arab authors.

American literature--Arab American authors.

English-speaking countries.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

""As a writer starting out in the early 1990s," Khaled Mattawa begins "Meet the Poet-Stranger," the essay that opens this collection, "I wanted the company of fellow immigrants who worked in the language of their adopted homelands, chiseling away at their exile and making a home for themselves in poetry." Throughout his career, Mattawa's thoughtful and politically astute considerations of what it means to create as a "poet-stranger," particularly for those of Middle Eastern heritage, have been steeped in his personal experience as a Libyan-American writer. The essays included in this volume cover Mattawa's approach toward translating contemporary and classical Arabic poetry, the personal and international politics of poetry, and the difficulty of representing one's own family history in one's own writing. The concluding piece, "Poems and Days (A Reader's Memoir)," presents his deep engagement with the work of other poets during his formative years as a writer"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Meet the Poet-Stranger: Three Stories and Their Aftermath 1

Identity, Power and a Prayer to Repatriation: On Writing and Translating Poetry 25

On the Poet's Presence: Thinking Back, Thinking Forth, Thinking Darwish and Tagore 41

Resisting the Lapse into Monologue: On the Poetics of Bihngualism in American Poetry 61

Ethnic American Writing and the Challenge of Tradition 74

Writing Islam in Contemporary American Poetry: On Mohja Kahf, Daniel Moore and Agha Shahid Ali 87

Translation Impossible 97

Epic Temptations: On an Unwritten Poem 101

Four Uneasy Pieces 118

On the Road with Adonis 132

Skyping with. Saadi, Channeling Li Po 135

Poems and Days (A Reader's Memoir) 138.

Notes:

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472053292

9780472073290

9780472122424

Publisher Number:

10.3998/mpub.9299873

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.