The Poetry of Arab Women,9781566563741

The Poetry of Arab Women

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ISBN13: 9781566563741
ISBN10: 1566563747
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Pub. Date: 2000-12-01
Publisher(s): Interlink Pub Group Inc
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Summary

Arab women poets work within one of the oldest literary traditions in the world, yet they are virtually unknown in the West. Uniting Arab women poets from the all over the Arab World anti abroad, Nathalie Handal has put together an outstanding collection that introduces poets who write in Arabic, French, English, and Swedish, among them some of the twentieth century's most accomplished poets and today's most exciting new voices.

Translated by distinguished translators and poets from around the world, The Poetry of Arab Women showcases the work of 82 poets, among them: Etel Adnan, Andre Chedid, Salma Khadra Jayyusi, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Fadwa Tuqan.

Author Biography

Nathalie Handal divides her time between Boston, New York, and London, where she is a researcher in the English department at the University of London. She is the author of a book of poetry, The Never Field, and a poetry CD, Traveling Rooms.

Table of Contents

Preface xii
Acknowledgements xvi
Introduction 1(63)
Elmaz Abi-Nader
64(4)
Although the Sky...
New Year's Morning
What We Leave Behind
Letters From Home
Huda Ablan
68(2)
Strangers
Fawziyya Abu-Khalid
70(3)
Two Little Girls
A Country
To Enjoy the Horror
Geometry of the Soul
Zulaykha Abu-Risha
73(2)
Marble
Khobayza
Tree
Mewl
Etel Adnan
75(3)
From The Spring Flowers Own
From The Indian Never Had a Horse
From There
Laila `Allush
78(1)
The Path of Affection
Lamea Abbas Amara
79(2)
San Diego (On a rainy day)
The Commandments
`Aisha Arnaout
81(3)
Orbits
Spinal Cord
S.V. Atalla
84(2)
Diaspora
Visiting the West Bank
Therese `Awwad
86(2)
My loneliness
I undressed myself
I found one word
Fadhila Chabbi
88(1)
The Blind Goddess
Engraving Twenty-Nine
Andree Chedid
89(2)
Full Face
Going Forth
Turn
Renegade
Siham Da'oud
91(2)
I Love in White Ink
Safaa Fathy
93(3)
The Sailor
Seasons
Mona Fayad
96(2)
Whisper
Salma in Wonderland
Claire Gebeyli
98(3)
A Man is Dead
Beirut
Nujoum al-Ghanim
101(4)
Sand in Flames
From Trespasses
Nada el-Hage
105(4)
Follow me
A Land Stretching up to the Sky
Overflow
The Journey of the Shadow
Laila Halaby
109(2)
Handfuls of Wind
Refugee
Long Distance
Suheir Hammad
111(6)
manifest destiny
broken and beirut
of woman torn
Nathalie Handal
117(2)
Goran's Whispers
Forgetting, Love
The Sigh
Dima Hilal
119(3)
ghaflah---the sin of forgetfulness
A Different Morning Altogether
Bedouin Eyes
Hoda Hussein
122(2)
A Room of One's Own
Male Grownups
Childhood
Donia el-Amal Ismail
124(3)
A Moment of Mourning
`Enayat Jaber
127(2)
Solitude
Clarity
Smell
Circle
Annemarie Jacir
129(1)
Pistachio Ice Cream
Salma Khadra Jayyusi
130(4)
Dearest Love
In the Casbah
The Sunken Ship
Amal al-Juburi
134(2)
Enheduanna and Goethe
Protest
Joanna Kadi
136(4)
Looking Back
ArabInnocents
Mohja Kahf
140(5)
The First Thing
The Roc
On the Death of Nizar Qabbani
Pauline Kaldas
145(3)
Morning
Home
Landscapes
Fatma Kandil
148(4)
Thorny Gaps Suddenly Moving
Emaciated Teeth
Veins All Dried Up
Dhabya Khamees
152(2)
Letter
Glance
Standing Worship
Loneliness
Gulf
Hamda Khamees
154(4)
What is Not Mine
Time for Dejection
Time to Shine
Nidaa Khoury
158(1)
The Last Bullet
People of Fire
People of Grapes
Venus Khoury-Ghata
159(3)
Because they hesitated between roses and darkness
It was a season tattooed onto the forehead of the earth
Humbly, he speaks to his tools
They
Wafaa' Lamrani
162(5)
The Wail of Heights
I am Consecrated to the Coming One
Fatima Mahmoud
167(4)
What Was Not Conceivable
Lisa Suhair Majaj
171(5)
Jerusalem Song
In Season
First Light
Arguments
Nazik al-Mala'ika
176(7)
Cholera
Five Hymns to Pain
Zakiyya Malallah
183(5)
Little Tales
Women
Thurayya Malhas
188(3)
An Orphan
False...False
al-Zahra al-Mansouri
191(3)
The Secrecy of Mirrors
Abandonment
Maram Masri
194(5)
Untitled
Small Sins
D.H. Melhem
199(5)
From Rest in Love
From Country
Boy in a Hospital
Iman Mersal
204(4)
Solitude Exercises
Dunya Mikhail
208(5)
Rain
The Dawn Fairy
The Chaldean Ruins
Hala Mohammad
213(2)
4 What am I chasing!
24 At the door of anticipation
43 The man who offers me his chest
58 Love burned out the light
Brenda J. Moossy
215(4)
A Notion of Grace
I Can No Longer Care for the Dying
When Fat Women Fear Famine
Rawia Morra
219(5)
From Ghurba
Amal Moussa
224(3)
Love Me
Autumn Rose
A Formal Poem
Sa'adyya Muffarreh
227(2)
The Spell of Blazing Trees
Habiba Muhammadi
229(4)
Untitled Poems
May Muzaffar
233(3)
Spinning
A Flash
Friends
The Voice
Reticence
The Absent
Houda al-Na'mani
236(2)
The Stone will Talk
The Purple Thought
Salwa al-Neimi
238(1)
Temptation
Paranoia
Dracula
Adele Ne Jame
239(4)
Song of a Thousand Empty Hands
About the Men
Somnambulist
The World is a Wedding
Naomi Shihab Nye
243(6)
Arabic
The Whole Self
The Small Vases from Hebron
Yellow Glove
OnGoing
Maysoun Saqr al-Qasimi
249(2)
The Morning of Every Sin
The Cusp of Desire
A Dream recalling a Temptation
Michaela Raen
251(4)
La Sombra of Who I am
Nadia Hazboun Reimer
255(3)
To an Old Friend
The Middle East
Workaholic
Su'ad al-Mubarak al-Sabah
258(1)
Mad Woman
Doris Safie
259(3)
Danger, Men In Trees
Meditation by the Xerox Machine
Amina Said
262(5)
one day I know the page
I present myself to the world
Laila al-Sa'ih
267(1)
Intimations of Anxiety
Saniyya Saleh
268(2)
Exile
Choking
Munia Samara
270(4)
Door of Roses
Door of the Cities
Ghada al-Samman
274(3)
The Lover of Blue Writing above the Sea!
The Lover of Rain in an Inkwell
Mona Saudi
277(2)
Blind City
So drunk am I
Mai Sayigh
279(1)
Departure
Sekeena Shaben
280(2)
tempest
thirteenth ode
fourteenth ode
Ghada el-Shafa'i
282(3)
A Scene for the Mornings Preceding the Fire
Interlaced Lines for the Same Moment
Deema K. Shehabi
285(4)
The Glistening
The Cemetery at Petit Saconnex
Breath
Fawziyya al-Sindi
289(7)
Banners of the Heart
Awakening
Sumaiya el-Sousy
296(1)
Voices
Lina Tibi
297(5)
A Voice
If only...
Failure
Suicide
XXVII
Nadia Tueni
302(4)
Beirut
Cedars
Baalbek
Tripoli
In the Lebanese Mountains
Fadwa Tuqan
306(3)
A Prayer to the New Year
Elegy of a Knight
Najaat al-Udwany
309(5)
A Boat on the Pacific
Butterflies of Anxiety
Carthage
Thurayya al-Urayyid
314(3)
Thirst
In the Stealth of the Stillness
Lorene Zarou-Zouzounis
317(4)
Embroidered Memory
Her Heart is a Rose Petal and her Skin is Granite
Amira el-Zein
321(3)
The Land of Mirrors
Sabah al-Kharrat Zwein
324(3)
Tableau 66
From As if in flaw, or in the Flaw of Space
About the Poets 327(20)
About the Translators and Readers 347(7)
Poets by Country 354

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