Victims of a Map: A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry - Softcover

Adonis; Mahmud Darwish; Samih Al-Qasim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0863565247 ISBN 13: 9780863565243

Publisher: Saqi Books, 2005

Synopsis

Mahmud Darwish, Samih al-Qasim and Adonis are amongst the leading poets in the Arab world today.

Victims of a Map presents some of their finest work in translation, alongside the original Arabic, including thirteen poems by Darwish never before published - in English or Arabic - and a long work by Adonis written during the 1982 siege of Beirut, also published here for the first time.

About this title

Review:

'... a five-star publication ... I would like to see it widely bought, read, and discussed in the English-speaking world.' Orbis

'A beautifully produced little book.' Middle East International

'... an excellent collection of verses from three of the most modern Arab poets.' International Journal of Islamic and Arabic Studies

'A very useful introduction to modern Arabic poetry ... an elegant, precise translation.' Al-Majalla

'A fascinating (and essential) bilingual anthology.' Poetry Wales

'Many poems whose beauty is in their apparent simplicity ...' Poetry London

'A useful introduction to modern Arabic poetry, this is an excellent collection of verses.' --The Middle East

About the Author:

Adonis was born in Syria in 1930. He was exiled to Beirut in 1956 and later became a Lebanese citizen. A critic as well as a poet, he founded the prestigious journal Mawaqif, and has exercised an enormous influence on Arabic literature.

Mahmud Darwish has become perhaps the best known Palestinian poet in the world. He was born in 1942 in al-Barweh, a village in Palestine, and his first collection of poetry was published in 1960.

Samih al-Qasim is a Palestinian born to a Druze family in Galilee in 1939. He grew up in Nazareth and has long been politically active in Israel, suffering imprisonment many times. A prolific writer, he had published six collections of poetry by the age of thirty.

Abdullah al-Udhari was born in Taiz, Yemen, in 1941, and has lived in London since 1962. He studied classical Arab literature and Sabaean epigraphy at London University, where he also received a doctorate for his pioneering study, Jahili Poetry before Imru al-Qais [4000 BCE 500 CE], which established him as an authority on early Jahili literature. In 1974 he founded and edited TR, an Anglo-Arab literary and arts magazine. He is a literary historian, poet and storyteller, and his publications include Victims of a Map, Classical Poems by Arab Women, Voice Without Passport, The Arab Creation Myth and Modern Poetry of the Arab World.

About this edition

• Publisher: Saqi Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0863565247
• ISBN 13: 9780863565243
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168
• Editor: Abdullah Al-Udhari