Author: Saadi SimawePublisher: Modern Poetry in Translation
ISBN: 9780953382460
Category : Arabic poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
First major collection of modern Iraqi poetry available in the West.
Iraqi Poetry Today
Author: Saadi SimawePublisher: Modern Poetry in Translation
ISBN: 9780953382460
Category : Arabic poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
First major collection of modern Iraqi poetry available in the West.
The Iraqi Nights
Author: Dunya MikhailPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 081122287X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
A stunning new collection by one of Iraq’s brightest poetic voices The Iraqi Nights is the third collection by the acclaimed Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail. Taking The One Thousand and One Nights as her central theme, Mikhail personifies the role of Scheherazade the storyteller, saving herself through her tales. The nights are endless, seemingly as dark as war in this haunting collection, seemingly as endless as war. Yet the poet cannot stop dreaming of a future beyond the violence of a place where “every moment / something ordinary / will happen under the sun.” Unlike Scheherazade, however, Mikhail is writing, not to escape death, but to summon the strength to endure. Inhabiting the emotive spaces between Iraq and the U.S., Mikhail infuses those harsh realms with a deep poetic intimacy. The author’s vivid illustrations — inspired by Sumerian tablets — are threaded throughout this powerful book.
Fifteen Iraqi Poets
Author: Dunyā MīkhāʼīlPublisher: New Directions Poetry Pamphlet
ISBN: 9780811221795
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of dazzling new, contemporary from Iraq, edited by award-winning Iraqi-American poet Dunya Mikhail
The Dangers of Poetry
Author: Kevin M. JonesPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503613879
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Poetry has long dominated the cultural landscape of modern Iraq, simultaneously representing the literary pinnacle of high culture and giving voice to the popular discourses of mass culture. As the favored genre of culture expression for religious clerics, nationalist politicians, leftist dissidents, and avant-garde intellectuals, poetry critically shaped the social, political, and cultural debates that consumed the Iraqi public sphere in the twentieth century. The popularity of poetry in modern Iraq, however, made it a dangerous practice that carried serious political consequences and grave risks to dissident poets. The Dangers of Poetry is the first book to narrate the social history of poetry in the modern Middle East. Moving beyond the analysis of poems as literary and intellectual texts, Kevin M. Jones shows how poems functioned as social acts that critically shaped the cultural politics of revolutionary Iraq. He narrates the history of three generations of Iraqi poets who navigated the fraught relationship between culture and politics in pursuit of their own ambitions and agendas. Through this historical analysis of thousands of poems published in newspapers, recited in popular demonstrations, and disseminated in secret whispers, this book reveals the overlooked contribution of these poets to the spirit of rebellion in modern Iraq.
Modern Poetry in Translation
Author: The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq
Author: Dunya MikhailPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811226131
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
The true story of a beekeeper who risks his life to rescue enslaved women from Daesh Since 2014, Daesh (ISIS) has been brutalizing the Yazidi people of northern Iraq: sowing destruction, killing those who won’t convert to Islam, and enslaving young girls and women. The Beekeeper, by the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail, tells the harrowing stories of several women who managed to escape the clutches of Daesh. Mikhail extensively interviews these women—who’ve lost their families and loved ones, who’ve been sexually abused, psychologically tortured, and forced to manufacture chemical weapons—and as their tales unfold, an unlikely hero emerges: a beekeeper, who uses his knowledge of the local terrain, along with a wide network of transporters, helpers, and former cigarette smugglers, to bring these women, one by one, through the war-torn landscapes of Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, back into safety. In the face of inhuman suffering, this powerful work of nonfiction offers a counterpoint to Daesh’s genocidal extremism: hope, as ordinary people risk their own lives to save those of others.
Flowers of Flame: Unheard Voices of Iraq
Author: Sadek MohammedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
"Iraq's poets have suffered imprisonment, exile, and death for the truths they have dared to tell. Poetry is not a luxury in Iraq, but a vital part of the struggle for the nation's future. This is poetry that is feared by tyrants and would-be tyrants. You will find joy here as well as struggle. Arabic poetry has a long and rich tradition of ecstatic love, whimsical humor, and philosophic insight. Remarkably, charm and lightness of touch abound. Even the war invites you to a picnic from which you will not return untouched. Many of these poems were written in response to the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. "Tomorrow the War Will Have a Picnic," for instance, was composed on the eve of the "shock and awe" campaign against Baghdad. We see here, through Iraqi eyes, the fall of Saddam's statue, his trial, the ongoing sectarian violence, and the foreign invaders on both sides of the struggle."--BOOK JACKET.
Without an Alphabet, Without a Face
Author: Saʻdī YūsufPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Living his life in exile--a series of forced departures from numerous countries--Iraqi poet Saadi Youssef also writes outside the long-standing forms of traditional Arabic poetry. In the words of Salma Khadra, a critic of Arabic poetry, "Youssef's poetry abounds with the sights, smells, colors, and movement of life around him, depicting scenes of great familiarity and intimacy. This is a great achievement in the face of the rage and fury and technical complexities of much of the other poetry written by his contemporaries." Beautifully translated by Khaled Mattawa, Graywolf is proud to present this vital voice to the United States.
The War Works Hard
Author: Dunyā MīkhāʼīlPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811216210
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Poems by an exiled Iraqi poet, many about war.
The Iraqi Nights
Author: Dunya MikhailPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811222861
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
A stunning new collection by one of Iraq's brightest poetic voices