The Blueness of the Evening : Selected Poems of Hassan Najmi / / Hassan Najmi, Mbarek Sryfi, Eric Sellin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910960452503321
• Autore: Najmi Hassan
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Fayetteville, AR, : University of Arkansas Press, 2018
• ISBN: 9781610756273; 1610756274
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 86 pages)
• Disciplina: 892.7/16
• Soggetti: Arabic poetry; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Preface; Acknowledgments; I. From A Small Life; Enemies; The Translator; Cogito; Sometimes; Café Ibn Battuta; Point of View; The Warriorâ#x80;#x99;s Turn; The Poet; A Little Woman; The Four Seasons; The Inn; Corrections; The Letters of Death; Clay; The Musician; The Movie Critic; Together . . .; II. From The Bathers; The Desert; III. From Seclusion; Condolences (I); Condolences (II); A Glance; Woman; Weeping; Message in a Bottle; Cradle; Dew; Chill; Scarf; Seagull; A Small Place; Stones; Voice; Dyads; The Blueness of the Evening; N.A.; The Station Square; Dyad; The Empty Chair. IV. Umber WindsUmber Winds; V. From A Hurt like Love; A Tear; The Runaway's Nostalgia; A Man Contemplating His Life; Voices in the City; The Violins; The Rain in the Poem; Whispers; A Cloud; Sands; A Room in Rome; Love; In the Darkened Room; Escape; The Dead Man; The Poet (II); Borges I; Borges II.
• Sommario/riassunto: This selection of Hassan Najmi's poems, translated by Mbarek Sryfi and Eric Sellin, provides an excellent introduction to the work of one of Morocco's foremost poets and to a school of modern verse emerging in the Arab World. Scenes of late night cityscapes, lonely interiors, awe-inspiring desert wastes, and seaside vistas are found within the exquisitely subtle lyric moods and nuances of Najmi's ars poetica, providing insight into the geographical, political, and linguistic ferment ; that have made Morocco an exciting hub of creative activity in the twenty-first century.