Revolt against the sun : the selected poetry of Nazik al-Mala'ika : a bilingual reader / Nazik al-Mala'ika ; edited and translated by Emily Drumsta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Malāʼikah, Nāzik, author.

Contributor:

Drumsta, Emily, editor, translator.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Malāʼikah, Nāzik--Translations into English.

Malāʼikah, Nāzik.

Genre:

Translations.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xxxvii, 198 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Saqi Books, 2020.

Language Note:

Poems in English and Arabic, translated from the original Arabic.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Poems from Night Lover (1947)

Revolt Against the Sun

Elegy for a Drowned Man

Night Lover

To the Poet Keats

Poems from Shrapnel and Ash (1949)

The Train Passed By

Elegy for an Unimportant Day

At the End of the Stairs

Song of the Abyss

To My Late Aunt

Cholera

A Funeral for Happiness

Accusations

Poems from At the Bottom of the Wave (1957)

To a Girl Sleeping in the Street

Elegy for a Woman of No Importance

Three Elegies for my Mother

I. A Song for Sadness

II. The Arrival of Sadness

III. The Black Flower

Killing a Dancer

When I Killed My Love

Words

An Invitation to Life

Poems from The Moon Tree (1968)

The Moon Tree

Greetings to the Iraqi Republic

A Song for the Arab Ruins

A Song for the Moon

Three Communist Songs

Poems from For Prayer and Revolution (1978)

Sleeping Beauty

A Letter from Him

A Letter to Him

Headlines and Advertisements in an Arab Newspaper

Poem from The Sea Changes Its Colors (1977)

And We Still Have the Sea.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780863563171

0863563171

OCLC:

1158103586

Publisher Number:

99986279231