Middle Eastern
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Forest of Noise: Poems
$22.00 Add to cart“A powerful, capacious, and profound” (Ocean Vuong) new collection of poems about life in Gaza by an award-winning Palestinian poet.
Barely thirty years old, Mosab Abu Toha was already a well-known po- Author: Abu Toha, Mosab
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0593803973
- Language: English
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No One Will Know You Tomorrow: Selected Poems, 2014-2024
$28.00 Add to cartA selection of the exquisite, passionate verse of the Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish, superbly translated into English
“A lush bouquet of essential poems from one of our species’ most urgent living p- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Darwish, Najwan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0300275463
- Language: English
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A River Dies of Thirst
$20.00 Add to cartThis remarkable collection of poems, meditations, fragments, and journal entries was Mahmoud Darwish’s last volume to come out in Arabic. This River is at once lyrical and philosophical, questioning a… [more below]
- Author: Darwish, Mahmoud
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 153
- Publish Date: August 25 2009
- ISBN10: 0981955711
- Language: English
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The Conference of the Birds
$21.00 Read moreAn award-winning author and illustrator offers a beautiful and uplifting adaptation of the beloved Sufi poem
Celebrated children’s book creator Peter Sis presents his first book for adults with The Co- Author: Sis, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 29 2013
- ISBN10: 0143124242
- Language: English
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The Silence That Remains: Selected Poems
$18.00 Add to cart“[A] rare occurrence in the poetry world.”–American Book Review
As a child, Ghassan Zaqtan lived in a refugee camp near the River Jordan. While that painful experience deeply influenced his poetry, wh
- Author: Zaqtan, Ghassan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: August 08 2017
- ISBN10: 155659514X
- Language: English
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Something about Living
$16.95 Add to cartIt’s nearly impossible to write poetry that holds the human desire for joy and the insistent agitations of protest at the same time, but Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s gorgeous and wide-ranging new collection … [more below]
- Series: Akron Poetry
- Author: Khalaf Tuffaha, Lena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 81
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1629222739
- Language: English
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Strangers in Light Coats: Selected Poems, 2014-2020
$21.00 Add to cartA highly anticipated edition of Zaqtan’s work from 2014 to 2020, all in English for the first time.
Ghassan Zaqtan is not only one of the most significant Palestinian poets at work today, but one of- Series: Arab List
- Author: Zaqtan, Ghassan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1803092386
- Language: English
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No One Is on the Line: The Poetry of Mohsen Mohamed
$14.00 Read moreThese poems arose from the depths of incarceration, from the throat and intellect of Mohsen Mohamed (sentenced to five years of harsh imprisonment after a campus protest) and went on to win Egypt’s tw
- Author: Mohamed, Mohsen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: September 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1942281307
- Language: English
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Postcards from the Underworld: Poems
$19.00 Add to cartA chilling poetic reflection on the world we have inherited and the destructions that made it.
To confront time, pre-modern Arabic poems often began with the poet standing before the ruins, real and- Series: Arab List
- Author: Antoon, Sinan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1803092505
- Language: English
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Nothing More to Lose
$16.00 Read moreNothing More to Lose is the first collection of poems by Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish to appear in English. Hailed across the Arab world and beyond, Darwish’s poetry walks the razor’s edge between … [more below]
- Series: NYRB/Poets
- Author: Darwish, Najwan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 29 2014
- ISBN10: 1590177304
- Language: English
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Louder Than Hearts: Poems
$16.00 Read moreA contemporary woman makes complex negotiations with history and culture in a voice equally strong, discerning, God-soaked, and edgycreating music out of personal longing and cultural tragedy. Hashem … [more below]
- Series: May Sarton New Hampshire Prize Winner for Poetry
- Author: Beck, Zeina Hashem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0872332349
- Language: English
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Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings
$125.00 Read moreFerdowsi’s classic poem Shahnameh is part myth, part history-beginning with the legend of the birth of the Persian nation and its tumultuous history, it contains magical birds and superhuman heroes an… [more below]
- Author: Ferdowsi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 21 2017
- ISBN10: 1631494465
- Language: English
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Layli and Majnun
$18.00 Add to cartThe Persian epic that inspired Eric Clapton’s unforgettable love song “Layla” and that Lord Byron called “the Romeo and Juliet of the East,” in a masterly new translation
A Penguin Classic The iconic- Author: Ganjavi, Nezami
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0143133993
- Language: English
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Flowers of Perhaps
$14.95 Read more- Author: Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1592642152
- Language: English
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We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon
$20.00 Read moreWe Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon contains poems written in response to the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon together with new ones rising from the 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon. Following … [more below]
- Author: Boullata
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1566566878
- Language: English
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Love’s Ripening: Rumi on the Heart’s Journey
$21.95 Add to cartLove is the meaning of our existence, the raw material of transformation, the glorious way of access to Divine intimacy. This teaching infuses the lyric verse of Rumi (1207-1273), the greatest of the … [more below]
- Author: Helminski, Kabir Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 28 2010
- ISBN10: 1590307593
- Language: English
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Arabic Poems
$20.00 Add to cartA bilingual anthology of poems from the sixth century to the present, Arabic Poems is a one-of-a-kind showcase of a fascinating literary tradition.
The Arabic poetic legacy is as vast as it is deep,- Series: Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets
- Author: Hammond, Marle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 05 2014
- ISBN10: 0375712437
- Language: English
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Adonis: Selected Poems
$20.00 Read moreThe first major career-spanning collection of the poems of Adonis, widely acknowledged as the most important poet working in Arabic today
“Poetry for [Adonis] is not merely a genre or an art form but- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Adonis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0300181256
- Language: English
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The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
$19.95 Read moreA rich introduction to the work of Rumi by the foremost scholar on the great mystical poet, featuring leading literary translations of his verse by Coleman Barks, Robert Bly, Andrew Harvey, Kabir Helm… [more below]
- Author: Rumi, Mevlana Jalaluddin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1645471659
- Language: English
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Almond Blossoms and Beyond
$25.00 Read moreThe first English translation of recent poetry by the late Mahmoud Darwish, the most important Palestinian contemporary poet. Almond Blossoms and Beyond is one of the last collections of poetry that M… [more below]
- Author: Darwish, Mahmoud
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1566567556
- Language: English
