Middle Eastern
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The Butterfly’s Burden
$23.00 Add to cart“Mahmoud Darwish is the Essential Breath of the Palestinian people, the eloquent witness of exile and belonging, exquisitely tuned singer of images that invoke, link, and shine a brilliant light into
- Author: Darwish, Mahmoud
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: January 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1556592418
- Language: English
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Almond Blossoms and Beyond
$20.00 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- Author: Darwish, Mahmoud
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 95
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1623716764
- Language: English
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Islamic Mystical Poetry: Sufi Verse from the Early Mystics to Rumi
$19.00 Add to cartWritten from the ninth to the twentieth century, these poems represent the peak of Islamic Mystical writing, from Rabia Basri to Mian Mohammad Baksh. Reflecting both private devotional love and the at… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Jamal, Mahmood
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 26 2010
- ISBN10: 0140424733
- Language: English
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Surge
$14.95 Add to cartA new volume of aphoristic prose and philosophical poetry from Etel Adnan, whose work The New York Times recently described as the “meditative heir to Nietzsche’s aphorisms, Rilke’s Book of Hours and … [more below]
- Author: Adnan, Etel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: August 22 2018
- ISBN10: 1937658856
- Language: English
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These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartKingsley Tufts Poetry Award Finalist
A thoughtful new collection of poems, one that deconstructs the deceptively simple question of what it means to be good-a good person, a good citizen, a good teache
- Author: Charara, Hayan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1571315411
- Language: English
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Songs from Bialik: Selected Poems of Hayim Nahman Bialik
$19.95 Add to cartHayim Nahman Bialik (1873-1934) is considered Israel’s national poet and one of the greatest Hebrew poets of all time. Several of his poems, particularly his immensely popular children’s verse, were s
- Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
- Author: Hadari, Atar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: June 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0815606052
- Language: English
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Tablets: Secrets of the Clay
$16.95 Add to cart“A bullet / then a siren / then ruins / then a bird song telling the truth”–Dunya Mikhail
In her marvelous new poetry collection Tablets: Secrets of the Clay, Dunya Mikhail transforms the world’s fir
- Author: Mikhail, Dunya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0811237974
- Language: English
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The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai
$30.00 Add to cartThe largest English-language collection to date from Israel’s finest poet
Few poets have demonstrated as persuasively as Yehuda Amichai why poetry matters. One of the major poets of the twentieth cent- Series: Copenhagen Trilogy, 2
- Author: Amichai, Yehuda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0374536589
- Language: English
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New Names for Lost Things
$14.99 Add to cartA poetic meditation on identity, loss, and loneliness from the bestselling poet and visual artist
An all-new illustrated poetry collection from the bestselling author of yesterday i was the moon, New- Author: Unnahar, Noor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1524867594
- Language: English
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Lebanon / Liban: Poems of Love and War / Poèmes d’Amour Et de Guerre
$9.95 Add to cartThis bilingual anthology, edited by Christophe Ippolito, contains Samuel Hazo’s complete translation of Lebanon: Twenty Poems for One Love and Paul B. Kelley’s selections from the never-before-transla
- Series: Modern Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Tuéni, Nadia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0815608160
- Language: English
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The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door: Thirty Poems of Hafez
$18.99 Add to cartOne of our most acclaimed poets brings the work of the great Persian mystic and poet, Hafez, to a new audience.
There is no poet in our tradition who carries the amount of admiration and devotion that
- Author: Bly, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 24 2009
- ISBN10: 0061138843
- Language: English
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All Faces But Mine: The Poetry of Samih Al-Qasim
$24.95 Add to cartAll Faces but Mine gathers selected poems from the acclaimed Palestinian poet Samih Al-Qasim (1934-2014). A contemporary of Mahmoud Darwish, Al-Qasim was a celebrated resistance poet whose passionate … [more below]
- Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Al-Qasim, Samih
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 21 2015
- ISBN10: 0815610521
- Language: English
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Maybe I Should Fly
$16.95 Add to cartMaybe I Should Fly is a collection of poems written in English by two young Afghan women. The Labib sisters, seldom given opportunities to be fully seen or heard in their own country, use poetry to ex
- Author: Labib, Shafiqa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 76
- Publish Date: July 17 2023
- ISBN10: 9798985544299
- Language: English
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Home: New Arabic Poems
$16.95 Add to cart“Unbelievably exciting…These are poems to read and reread, repeating the lines as though they were a secret between yourself and the page.” —The Paris Review
Evoking the sights, sounds, and tastes o
- Series: Calico #2
- Author: Mersal, Iman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1949641074
- Language: English
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Writing the Camp
$14.50 Add to cartPOETRY BOOK SOCIETY SPRING RECOMMENDATION 2021
Yousif M Qasmiyeh’s Writing The Camp is an exceptional, essential collection drawn from the poet’s experience of the Baddawi refugee camp in Lebanon. The
- Author: Qasmiyeh, Yousif M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: February 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1913642356
- Language: English
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Rumi: Selected Poems
$22.99 Add to cartFor more than eight hundred years, the poetry of Jalālu’l-Dīn Rūmī has touched and inspired people of all faiths and cultures. Considered the greatest mystical poet of Iran, Rumi i… [more below]
- Author: Rumi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 19 2022
- ISBN10: 048685034X
- Language: English
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Shrapnel Maps
$22.00 Add to cartWriting into the wounds and reverberations of the Israel/Palestine conflict, Philip Metres’ fourth book of poems, Shrapnel Maps, is at once elegiac and activist, an exploratory surgery to extract the… [more below]
- Author: Metres, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: April 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1556595638
- Language: English
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Exhausted on the Cross
$16.00 Add to cartA much-anticipated follow-up to Nothing More to Lose, this is only the second poetry collection translated into English from a vital voice of Arabic literature.
“We drag histories behind us,” the Pale- Author: Darwish, Najwan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1681375524
- Language: English
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The Threshold: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartA selection of luminous, fiercely intelligent verse from Egypt’s premier poet.
Iman Mersal is Egypt’s–indeed, the Arab world’s–great outsider poet. Over the past three decades, she has crafted a voi- Author: Mersal, Iman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0374607850
- Language: English
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Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?
$21.00 Add to cartMahmoud Darwish is one of the greatest poets of our time. In his poetry Palestine becomes the map of the human soul.
— Elias Khoury
The book tugs at the reader’s heart page after page, poem after … [more below]- Author: Darwish, Mahmoud
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 197
- Publish Date: August 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0976395010
- Language: English
