Though published widely and translated into 6 languages, this is the first book of Said s to be translated into English. Multi-award winning poet/ translator Marilyn Hacker has translated and edited a selection covering Said s most important work over the last 10 years.
“Seduce your Valentine with a touch of Eastern promise.” One of the world’s favourite poets, Kahlil Gibran was never more profound than when he wrote about love. Now, for the first time, his reflections on love and friendship have been gathered together in one volume. In this beautiful collection of quotations from both poetry and […]
A bilingual (Arabic and English, printed on facing pages) collection of poems on the themes of love, death, the passage of time and the passing of the seasons. The voice in the poems draws on a wealth of traditions, including the classical, the chivalric, the neo-classical and the modernist.
These are the poems of a strong and sensual soul, suffused with the rich light of the Arab-Islamic culture she not only inherits, but furthers, as a living tradition through her work. Kashgari’s poetry detects the universal in the specific, sees the universe in the grain of sand, and is able through the musical weaving […]
ASHUR ETWEBI is one of Libya’s leading writers. A poet, novelist, and translator, he has published six books of poetry, two novels, and three books of translation. | "In POEMS FROM ABOVE THE HILL, ASHUR ETWEBI compactly renders experience in a hauntingly classical way. His work is rooted in the landscapes of his country, and […]
Both voice of the Palestinian people and one of the most transcendent poets of his generation, Mahmoud Darwish also wrote several remarkable volumes of autobiographical essays over the course of his life. First published in Beirut in 1973, these probing essays ask vital questions about the existentially complex realities the Palestinians in Israel face and […]