Middle Eastern
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The Essential Rumi – Reissue: New Expanded Edition: A Poetry Anthology
$18.99 Add to cartThis revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumi includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than 80 never-before-published poems of Rumi.
Through his lyrical translations, Coleman Bar
- Author: Barks, Coleman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 28, 2004
- ISBN10: 0062509594
- Language: English
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Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing
$16.99 Add to cartRumi: The Book of Love is a collection of astonishing poems for lovers from the mystic Rumi, by the translator who made him sing anew, Coleman Barks.
Poetry and Rumi fans will want to own this gorgeous
- Author: Barks, Coleman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: January 18 2005
- ISBN10: 0060750502
- Language: English
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Drunk on the Wine of the Beloved: 100 Poems of Hafiz
$19.95 Add to cartThe Persian Sufi poet Hafiz (1326-1390) is a towering figure in Islamic literature–and in spiritual attainment as well. Known for his profound mystical wisdom combined with a sublime sensuousness, Ha… [more below]
- Author: Hafiz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 14 2001
- ISBN10: 157062853X
- Language: English
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The Heart of Rumi: Poems of Friendship, Love, and Spiritual Reflection
$28.00 Add to cartExplore the enchanting works of Rumi in this beautifully packaged poetry collection.
For more than eight centuries, the poems of Persian mystic poet and Sufi master Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi Rumi hav- Author: Rumi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1577155505
- Language: English
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Open Closed Open: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartIn poems marked by tenderness and mischief, humanity and humor, Yehuda Amichai breaks open the grand diction of revered Jewish verses and casts the light of his own experience upon them. Here he … [more below]
- Author: Amichai, Yehuda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0156030500
- Language: English
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Water to Water: Gaza Renga
$20.00 Add to cartA poetry collaboration in the call-and-response form of Renga by two award-winning poets during the genocide in Gaza.
In 2009, prompted by the Israeli siege of Gaza, poets Marilyn Hacker and Deema Sh- Author: Hacker, Marilyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 141
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1623715822
- Language: English
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The Book of Rain
$25.00 Add to cartThe contents of the future are the contents of a cloud.
So begins translator David Larsen’s introduction for the Book of Rain, the earliest known catalogue of Arabic weather-words, by early Arabic ling… [more below]
- Author: Al-Anṣārī, Abū Zayd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 9798891060364
- Language: English
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Love and Resistance: Poems
$24.00 Add to cartLove and Resistance is a book of translated poems by Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani. The book’s introduction chronicles Mr. Qabbani’s life and explains the background, the social climate, and the circumsta
- Author: Qabbani, Nizar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1594981582
- Language: English
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Khosrow and Shirin
$25.00 Add to cartA tragic epic love story before Romeo and Juliet, by one of the greatest medieval Persian romance poets, in a modern-verse English translation by Dick Davis
A Penguin Classic Based on historical chara- Author: Ganjavi, Nezami
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0143138634
- Language: English
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Nostalgia for the Future: New and Selected Poems 1984-2024
$19.95 Add to cartGregory Djanikian’s Nostalgia for the Future: New and Selected Poems, written over several decades, takes for its many subjects romantic love and its difficulties, the horrors of the Armenian genocide… [more below]
- Author: Djanikian, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798990480155
- Language: English
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Mural
$19.95 Add to cart“The most celebrated writer of verse in the Arab world.”
Poetry from former national poet of Palestine, illustrated by original drawings by John Berger
-Adam Shatz, The New York Times
Mahmoud Darwish w- Author: Darwish, Mahmoud
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1804297119
- Language: English
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O.N.E – Opportunities Never End
$21.95 Add to cartSafia Hussein Guerras’ book, O.N.E – Opportunities Never End, is a profound exploration of the human experience, woven through a rich tapestry of philosophical musings and poetic reflections. The narr… [more below]
- Author: Hussein Guerras, Safia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1035834731
- Language: English
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[…]: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartFinalist for the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry
Winner of the 2024 Jackson Poetry Prize
A Reading the West Book Award Finalist
From one of our most acclaimed contemporary writers, an urgent and esse… [more below]
- Author: Joudah, Fady
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 163955128X
- Language: English
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Gaza: The Poem Said Its Piece
$17.95 Add to cartOne of Lit Hub’s most Anticipated Poetry Books for Spring!
Like Mandelstam, Akhmatova, and Vallejo, Gazan poet Nasser Rabah embodies the magnificent possibilities of the human spirit and imagination un
- Series: City Lights Pocket Poets #64
- Author: Rabah, Nasser
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0872869121
- Language: English
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Rock Flight
$16.95 Add to cartOne more rock thrown onto the pile to tumble the mountain on my chest
–Hasib Hourani
Hasib Hourani’s rock flight is a book-length poem that, over seven chapters, follows a single personal and histo
- Author: Hourani, Hasib
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0811238857
- Language: English
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Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry
$24.95 Add to cartA love letter to Palestinian ancestors, their descendants, and their land, to all anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles, to a history that will never be forgotten, and to a future in which ther
- Author: Abraham, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Water
$14.95 Add to cartA follow-up to her ground-breaking translations of Rumi in Gold, poet and musician Haleh Liza Gafori translates a new selection of work by the great Persian mystic that will muster the soul and stir t… [more below]
- Author: Rumi, Mevlana Jalaluddin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1681379163
- Language: English
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Enemy of the Sun: Poetry of Palestinian Resistance
$18.95 Add to cartA collection of Palestinian poetry originally published in 1970 that resonates with liberation and civil rights struggles around the world.
This updated edition for the current generation of activists- Author: Aruri, Naseer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1644214555
- Language: English
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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
$10.95 Add to cartIn 1859, Edward FitzGerald translated into English the short, epigrammatic poems (or “rub?iy?t”) of medieval Persian poet Omar Khayy?m. If not a true translation–his Omar seems to have read Shakespea… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Fitzgerald, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0199580502
- Language: English
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Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad
$19.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2010 Lois Roth Persian Translation Prize
“In Wolpé’s fresh and vital translation, a musical and compelling English version that draws the reader along and captures a sense of the exquis
- Author: Farrokhzad, Forugh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: June 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1557289484
- Language: English
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