Modern Arabic Poetry: An Anthology
After centuries of oppressive Ottoman rule, the Arab world began to find new vitality and freedom in the twentieth century. The accompanying resurgence of creative expression is splendidly reflected in this definitive anthology of contemporary Arabic poetry, which spans the modern Arab world from the turn of the century to the present, from the Arab Gulf to Morocco. The editor, Salma Khadra Jayyusi, a renowned expert on modern Arabic literature, presents a through introduction to the works of...
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After centuries of oppressive Ottoman rule, the Arab world began to find new vitality and freedom in the twentieth century. The accompanying resurgence of creative expression is splendidly reflected in this definitive anthology of contemporary Arabic poetry, which spans the modern Arab world from the turn of the century to the present, from the Arab Gulf to Morocco. The editor, Salma Khadra Jayyusi, a renowned expert on modern Arabic literature, presents a through introduction to the works of more than ninety Arab poets. To create the best possible English translation, each selection has been translated first by a bilingual expert and then by an English-language poet, who creatively renders it into idiomatic English.Middle East InternationalIf proof of the pudding is in the eating, Modern Arabic Poetry: An Anthology is brilliantly successful.... It offers the finest available translations of a literature now ripe for rediscovery.
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction\ Part I: Poets Before the Fifties\ Ilya Abu MadiThe Human ClayThe Phoenix\ Umar Abu RishaA Roman TempleAn Eagle\ Ilyas Abu ShabakaYou or I?This Is My WineI Love You\ Al-Akhtal al-SaghirThe Wisdom of LifeHind and her Mother\ Sa'id 'AcqlDo Not Show Your LoveMore Beautiful Than Your EyesDark BeautyFrom: The Book of Roses\ Badawi al-JabalDark MirageThe VisitImmortalityBeauty\ Al Tijani Yusuf BashirTormented MysticMemories of the Village School\ Ilyas FarhatQuatrainsMy Burned SuitSalmaWilderness\ Gibran Kahlil GibranVeiled LandEarthThe Seven StagesFameThe Poet\ Hafiz IbrahimDescribing a Suit\ Muhammad M. al-JawahiriCome Down, DarknessLullaby for the Hungry\ Mutran Khalil MutranBoycottEvening\ Ahmad al-Safi al-NajafiWhere is the Guard?The Pleasures of DarknessThe Ship of LifeThe Moth\ Ibrahim NajiFarewellOblivion\ Amin NakhlaTo the Beloved Grown Past YouthBlack Song\ Mikha'il al-RasafiPoem to al-RaihaniThe Abyss of Death\ Abu al-Qasim al-ShabbiLife's WillQuatrains from "Song of Ecstacy"\ Ahman ShauqiBois de BoulogneThoughts on SchoolchildrenAn Andalusian Exile\ 'Ali Mahmud TahaThe Blind MusicianEgyptian Serenade\ Ibrahim TuqanThe MartyrPerplexity\ Jamil S. al-ZahawiBoth Strangers\ Part II: Poets After the Fifties\ Hasan 'AbdallahI Remember Having Loved\ Muhammad 'Abd al-HayyOde of Signs\ Salah 'Abd al-SaburExpectation: Night and DayThe Gist of the StoryThe People of my CountryWinter SongThe Sun and the Woman\ 'Abd al-Razzaq 'Abd al-WahidDreaded RoadReaching FortyYou Rise Among TruthsShauqi Abi ShaqraWater for the Family HouseThe StudentFugue\ AdunisA Mirror to KhalidaBeginning SpeechA SongMihyar, A KingA Grave for New York\ 'Ali Ja'far al-AllaqPoetLady of Chaos\ Muhammad al-As'adGardens for the Fire and the RainThe Princess\ 'Abd-Allah al-BaraduniFrom Exile to ExileA Rose From Al-Mutannabi's Blood\ Saleen BarakatDilana and DiramThe Wild GoatThe Cows of HeavenThe GreyhoundThe Hoopoe birdThe FlamingoThe Squirrel\ 'Abd al-Wahhab al-BayyatiThe ImpossibleLuzumiyyaThe Birth of Aisha and Her DeathElegy for Aisha\ Mohammad BennisThe Second ComingBelonging to a New Family\ Sargon BoulusLighterPoemMy Father's DreamSiege\ Mahmoud al-BuraikanTale of the Assyrian StateMan of the Stone City\ Ahmad DahburIn Memory of 'Iziddin al-QalaqThe Death of the Shoemaker\ Mahmoud DarwishDiary of a Palestinian WoundBreadBeirutPoems After Beirut\ Zuhur DixonOvertureDialogue of the Night of the RosesSeason of Beginning and End Two Hands on the Water\ Amal DunqulThe Scaffold CornerTomorrowTrainsThe City A Wrecked Ship\ Salah Fa'iqPoems\ Muhammad al-FaituriThe StoryIncidentThe Question and the AnswerThe DervishThe Closed DoorA ScreamThe Vision\ Muhammad al-GhuzziFemaleQuatrains for JoyYour EyesA DreamThe PenMy SisterTaghoreThe Beggar\ Columbia University Press
\ International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies"The high quality of the translation gives the poems an English texture with no loss of their Arabic authenticity... a fine work and a major contribution, much needed and long awaited...."\ \ \ \ \ \ World Literature Today[Modern Arabic Poetry] establishes new standards of sensitivity, accuracy, and readability.\ \ \ \ World Literature Today[Modern Arabic Poetry] establishes new standards of sensitivity, accuracy, and readability.\ \ \ \ \ International Journal of Middle Eastern StudiesThe high quality of the translation gives the poems an English texture with no loss of their Arabic authenticity . . . a fine work and a major contribution, much needed and long awaited...\ \ \ \ \ Middle East InternationalIf proof of the pudding is in the eating, Modern Arabic Poetry: An Anthology is brilliantly successful.... It offers the finest available translations of a literature now ripe for rediscovery.\ \ \ \ \ Shawkat M. ToorawaThe appearance of Salma Jayyusi's anthology is a major event in the translation of modern Arabic poetry.... I cannot commend or recommend it enough.\ \
