03304nam 2200649Ia 450 991078991170332120230801222451.01-280-06215-097866135199000-300-18363-110.12987/9780300183634(CKB)2670000000176229(EBL)3420811(SSID)ssj0000623095(PQKBManifestationID)12293000(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000623095(PQKBWorkID)10659496(PQKB)10260043(MiAaPQ)EBC3420811(DE-B1597)486458(OCoLC)1024051792(DE-B1597)9780300183634(Au-PeEL)EBL3420811(CaPaEBR)ebr10546770(CaONFJC)MIL351990(OCoLC)923596710(EXLCZ)99267000000017622920110712d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLike a straw bird it follows me and other poems[electronic resource] /Ghassan Zaqtan ; translated from the Arabic by Fady JoudahNew Haven Yale University Press20121 online resource (144 p.)A Margellos world republic of letters bookDescription based upon print version of record.0-300-17316-4 Includes bibliographical references.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Translator's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- From Luring The Mountain (1998) -- From Biography In Charcoal (2003) -- Like A Straw Bird It Follows Me (2008) -- Alone And The River Before Me -- The Orchard Of Roman Olives -- NotesIn this inspired translation of Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me, Ghassan Zaqtan's tenth and most recent poetry collection, along with selected earlier poems, Fady Joudah brings to English-language readers the best work by one of the most important and original Palestinian poets of our time. With these poems Zaqtan enters new terrain, illuminating the vision of what Arabic poetry in general and Palestinian poetry in particular are capable of. Departing from the lush aesthetics of such celebrated predecessors as Mahmoud Darwish and Adonis, Zaqtan's daily, delicate narrative, whirling catalogues, and at times austere aesthetics represent a new trajectory, a significant leap for young Arabic poets today.In his preface to the volume, Joudah analyzes and explores the poet's body of work. "Ghassan Zaqtan's poems, in their constant unfolding," Joudah writes, "invite us to enter them, exit them, map and unmap them, code and decode them, fill them up and empty them, with the living and nonliving, the animate and inanimate, toward a true freedom."Margellos world republic of letters book.Arabic poetryMiddle Eastern poetryArabic poetry.Middle Eastern poetry.892.7/16Zaqṭān Ghassān1543796Joudah Fady1971-1543797MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789911703321Like a straw bird it follows me and other poems3797428UNINA