Miracle Maker: Selected Poems of Fadhil Al-AzzawiBOA Editions, Ltd., 2003 - 143 עמודים This collection features poems from Al-Azzawi's six previous Arabic poetry collections and many new poems. Springing from classical Arabic poetry, his poems speak to political exile, -cultural marginalization, and Middle Eastern and Western histories and mythologies. Al-Azzawi employs -humor, melancholy and tenderness to celebrate new worlds of possibility. Fadhil Al-Azzawi was born in 1940 in Kirkuk, Iraq. By the time he was -fifteen, he was publishing poems in the leading Arab literary magazines in Beirut and Baghdad. Al-Azzawi -currently lives in London. Khaled Mattawa (Translator) is the author of a -collection of poetry, Ismailia Eclipse, and the translator of two books of contemporary Arabic poetry, Hatif Janabi's Questions and Their Retinue and Saddi Youssef's Without an Alphabet, Without a Face. |
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The Making of a Miracle Maker | 9 |
The Clown and the Dancer 2233 | 21 |
A Bell | 28 |
Song of the Dead Arab | 39 |
The Opening | 45 |
The Lover | 51 |