VICTIMS OF A MAP

Name: VICTIMS OF A MAP
Brand: Vanguard Books
SKU: 0863565247
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A BILINGUAL ANTHOLOGY OF ARABIC POETRY

By ADONIS , MAHMUD

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Description

Victims of a Map presents fifteen translated poems by each poet. It includes thirteen poems by Darwish never before published in book form, even in Arabic, and a long work by Adonis written during the 1982 siege of Beirut, also published here for the first time.

About the Author

Adonis (the pen-name of Au Alimad Said) was born in Syria in 1930. He was exiled to Beirut in 1956 and later became a Lebanese citizen. The founder of the influential journal Mawaq a critic as well as a poet, he has exercised enormous influence on Arabic literature. He is the author of Sufism and Surrealism, also published by Saqi. Mabmud Darwish was born in 1942 in al-Barweh, a village in Palestine. His first collection of poetry was published in 1960, and since then he has become perhaps the best-known Palestinian poet in the world. Samih al-Qasim is a Palestinian born to a Druze family of 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 time he was thirty.