{"product_id":"arabic-poems-isbn-9780375712432","title":"Arabic Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eA bilingual anthology of poems from the sixth century to the present, \u003ci\u003eArabic Poems\u003c\/i\u003e is a one-of-a-kind showcase of a fascinating literary tradition, here presented in stunning pocket-sized hardcover, with English and Arabic on facing pages. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Arabic poetic legacy is as vast as it is deep, spanning a period of fifteen centuries in regions from Morocco to Iraq. Themes of love, nature, religion, and politics recur in works drawn from the pre-Islamic oral tradition through poems anticipating the recent Arab Spring.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditor Marlé Hammond has selected more than fifty poems reflecting desire and longing of various kinds: for the beloved, for the divine, for the homeland, and for change and renewal. Poets include the legendary pre-Islamic warrior ‘Antara, medieval Andalusian poet Ibn Zaydun, the mystical poet Rabi‘a al-‘Adawiyya, and the influential Egyptian Romantic Ahmad Zaki Abu Shadi. Here too are literary giants of the past century: Khalil Jibran, author of the best-selling The Prophet; popular Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani; Palestinian feminist Fadwa Tuqan; Mahmoud Darwish, bard of occupation and exile; acclaimed iconoclast Adonis; and more. In their evocations of heroism, nostalgia, mysticism, grief, and passion, the poems gathered here transcend the limitations of time and place.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEveryman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.\u003ci\u003eForeword \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eImru’ al-Qays, “Mu’allaqa”\u003cbr\u003eLabid, “Mu’allaqa”\u003cbr\u003e‘Antara, “Mu’allaqa”\u003cbr\u003e‘Antara, “Abla’s spirit”\u003cbr\u003eAl-Shanfara, “L-Poem of the Arabs”\u003cbr\u003e‘Abid, “I watched through the night”\u003cbr\u003e‘Abid, “No thunder came”\u003cbr\u003eAl-Khansa’, “Lament for a Brother”\u003cbr\u003eMaysun, “Song of Maisuna”\u003cbr\u003eUmar Ibn Abi Rabi’a, “Ah for the throes of a heart sorely wounded!”\u003cbr\u003eMajnun Layla, “I last saw Laila”\u003cbr\u003eMajnun Layla, “Laila I loved”\u003cbr\u003eRabi’a al’-Adawiyya, “Two ways I love Thee”\u003cbr\u003eAbu Nuwas, “O moon called forth by lament”\u003cbr\u003eAbu Nuwas, “She sent her likeness stealing in dream”\u003cbr\u003e‘Ulayya Bint al-Mahdi, “Three Love Epigrams”\u003cbr\u003eAl-Ma’arri, “Some Power troubled our affairs”\u003cbr\u003eAl-Ma’arri, “Bewildered”\u003cbr\u003eIbn Zaydun, “Poem in N”\u003cbr\u003eWallada, “Must separation mean we have no way to meet?”\u003cbr\u003eQasmuna Bint Isma’il, “Seeing Herself Beautiful and Nubile”\u003cbr\u003eAl-Mu’tamid, “Of the Place of His Youth”\u003cbr\u003eAl-Mu’tamid, “The Letter” \u003cbr\u003eIbn Quzman, “Muwashshaha”\u003cbr\u003eAl-A’ma al-Tutili, “Muwashshaha” \u003cbr\u003eIbn Sara, “Oranges”\u003cbr\u003eIbn Sara, “Aubergines”\u003cbr\u003eIbn Hamdis, “Moon in Eclipse”\u003cbr\u003eIbn Hamdis, “Water-lilies”\u003cbr\u003eIbn Khafaja, “Lovely Maid”\u003cbr\u003eIbn Khafaja, “Lovely River”\u003cbr\u003eHafsa Bint al-Hajj, “Those lips I praise”\u003cbr\u003eIbn al-‘Arabi, “As night let its curtains down in folds”\u003cbr\u003eIbn al-‘Arabi, “The tombs of those who loved them”\u003cbr\u003eIbn Nubata al-Misri, “I have renounced and given up all speech sublime”\u003cbr\u003eJibran Khalil Jibran, “Of Happiness and Hope”\u003cbr\u003eJibran Khalil Jibran, “Of Love”\u003cbr\u003eAbu al-Qasim al-Shabbi, “The Will of Life”\u003cbr\u003eAhmad Zaki Abu Shadi, “Evening Prayer”\u003cbr\u003eFadwa Tuqan, “I Found It” \u003cbr\u003eBadr Shakir al-Sayyab, “Rain Song”\u003cbr\u003eSalma Khadra Jayyusi, “Shudan”\u003cbr\u003eNizar Qabbani, “I want to write different words for you”\u003cbr\u003eNizar Qabbani, “Take all the books”\u003cbr\u003eNizar Qabbani, “I want to make you a unique alphabet”\u003cbr\u003eAdonis, from \u003ci\u003eThis Is My Name\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMuhammad al-Maghut, “Dream” \u003cbr\u003eMahmoud Darwish, “We were Missing a Present”\u003cbr\u003eMahmoud Darwish, “A Lesson from Kama Sutra” \u003cbr\u003eMohammed Bennis, “Rose of Dust”\u003cbr\u003eIman Mersal, “Solitude Exercises”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBiographies of the Poets \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eMARLÉ HAMMOND, a Lecturer in Arabic Popular Literature and Culture at SOAS, University of London, is the author of \u003ci\u003eBeyond Elegy: Classical Arabic Women's Poetry in Context\u003c\/i\u003e.Foreword\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArabic poetry is as vast as it is deep, encompassing all manner of poetic expression from Morocco to Iraq and spanning more than fifteen centuries. In its early stages it formed part of an oral tradition, and there were systematic and collective efforts to transmit it to later generations. Poetry not only entertained and delighted, it also served to memorialize individuals, communities and events. When scholars and scribes of the second and third Islamic centuries (ninth and tenth centuries, ce) began to record this inheritance in writing, it served as an important foundation forknowledge. Even today,it has pride of place in the public domain, engaging the elites and the masses in equal measure, albeit in different registers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis anthology attempts to capture the breadth and depth of the Arabic poetic legacy through its inclusion of pieces composed from pre-Islamic times through to the twenty-first century. It does not claim to offer a representative sampling, however. Instead, in an effort to lend coherence to the anthology and to appeal to the lay reader, I have selected poems reflecting sentiments of desire or longing, poems whose most immediate meanings transcend the limitations of time and space. Such expressions of yearning occur in a wide variety of genres. In addition to straight- forward love poetry, or ghazal, we find mystical poems and elegies. The nostalgic stance of the heroic odes, including the celebrated \u003ci\u003eMu'allaqat,\u003c\/i\u003e with their contemplation of the beloved’s abandoned campsite and their emphasis on cycles of death and rebirth, famine and feasting, leave the poetic persona and reader alike aching for the spring rains. Al-Shanfara’s ‘L-Poem’, ostensibly a poem of rejection which subverts tribal values, strikes one as a portrait of a terribly lonely person longing for companionship and family. The ancient genre of ‘longing for homelands’ (al-hanin ila alawtan), represented here by the ‘Song of Maisuna’, finds echoes in the selections of the exiled modern poets. Some of the pieces in the anthology read as expressions of sheer delight, or as an appreciation of everyday affairs, while others, particularly among the modern selections, express an anti-nostalgic and deeply felt yearning for change. It is hoped that the reader will find these poems diverting, moving and provocative.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarlé Hammond\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNote: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ePre-modern Arabic poems were not given titles. 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