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Book Synopsis Fifteen Iraqi Poets by : Dunyā Mīkhāʼīl
Download or read book Fifteen Iraqi Poets written by Dunyā Mīkhāʼīl and published by New Directions Poetry Pamphlet. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of dazzling new, contemporary from Iraq, edited by award-winning Iraqi-American poet Dunya Mikhail
Book Synopsis Modern Iraqi Poetry Since 1947 by : Fadel Khalaf Jabr
Download or read book Modern Iraqi Poetry Since 1947 written by Fadel Khalaf Jabr and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology captures the catalysts, motivations, inspirations, and outcomes of the free verse movement in Iraq from its inception in 1947 to the present day. It provides English readers with an understanding of the breadth of modern Iraqi poetry landscape by including translated poems within their political, economic, and social context. Beginning in Iraq in 1947, a free verse (shi`r hurr) movement emerged, completely altering the way much poetry would be written thereafter in the Arab World. Wanting to break free of traditional poetry's meters, meanings, and rhymes they found constraining poets began experimenting with new and different styles better able to capture the feelings, values, and events of current and contemporary life. Building on and encouraged by earlier efforts at innovation, they endeavored to break the rigidity of traditional poetry and express new attributes and domains: the dream world, free imagination, open narrative, folklore tales and legends, everyday life, surrealism and mythology. Over subsequent decades, poets furthered the free verse movement, adding their own conceptions of modernism and post modernism along with new styles, meanings, and mediums. Many anthologies of Arabic or Iraqi modern poetry have been published in the United States, such as: Fifteen Iraqi Poets, New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2013; Flowers of Flame: Unheard Voices of Iraq, Michigan State University Press 2008; Modern Arabic Poetry: An Anthology, Columbia University Press, 1987. However, despite the intentions of the editors, the content of these anthologies reveals several limitations. First, the anthologies introduce only a small portion of the wide Iraqi poetry landscape. Second, the poets selected are mainly those who are already known and internationally translated. Third, occasionally, poets are been selected based on personal preferences not by merit. Despite these limitations, the collections are valuable for introducing in English a flavor of Iraqi poetry. The current work sets out to fill the gaps in the preceding collections and be as resourceful, inclusive, and representative as possible. Poets were selected that represent the full Iraqi poetry landscape, not only those who are well-known and established. Besides bringing a mix of Iraqi poets from different decades, the anthology also provides background on the social, political, and cultural context that dominated each decade. In addition, the translation process used in this anthology distinguishes it from other collections. The distinctive features include: the translation process, the range of the selection, and the perspective on the translations. All poems included in this anthology went through a similar, four-step translation process, an academically controlled system not necessarily available or followed in other poetry collection translations. In Step 1 of this process, the translator produces a raw summary of the content of a poem. In Step 2, the translator generates a literal version, noting any implied cultural, political, linguistic or social references. In Step 3, the translator produces a clean draft translation, which he or she sends, along with the initial raw summary and the literal translation, to a native speaker for review and provision of feedback, in order to check the reception in the host language. In Step 4, the translator produces a final version of the translation, incorporating all the elements of the preceding steps. In addition, in selecting these poems, I attempted to maintain a neutral selection process, rather than promoting my personal preferences and own acquaintances as an Iraqi poet myself. A neutral selection process provides the anthology authenticity, credibility, and a fair representation. To begin, I collected a variety of samples from different poets actively publishing in each decade since the 1940s. To gain access to a wide range of Iraqi poets living both inside and outside Iraq, I used different sources, such as Iraqi newspapers, popular websites, interviews, and personal connections, to acquire poems for the anthology. The response was tremendous. From the numerous poems that I collected, I then selected the ones that best illuminated how the changes and events taking place within Iraq and its society have influenced poets and their poetry. The discussion of the trends and events taking place in the context where the poems were conceived and produced is an additional strength of this anthology.
Download or read book The Iraqi Nights written by Dunya Mikhail and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning new collection by one of Iraq's brightest poetic voices
Book Synopsis In Her Feminine Sign by : Dunya Mikhail
Download or read book In Her Feminine Sign written by Dunya Mikhail and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant poetic exploration of language and gender, place, and time, seen through the mirror of exile In Her Feminine Sign follows on the heels of Dunya Mikhail's devastating account of Daesh kidnappings and killings of Yazidi women in Iraq, The Beekeeper. It is the first book she has written in both Arabic and English, a process she talks about in her preface, saying "The poet is at home in both texts, yet she remains a stranger." With a subtle simplicity and disquieting humor reminiscent of Wislawa Szymborska and an unadorned lyricism wholly her own, Mikhail shifts between her childhood in Baghdad and her present life in Detroit, between Ground Zero and a mass grave, between a game of chess and a flamingo. At the heart of the book is the symbol of the tied circle, the Arabic suffix taa-marbuta—a circle with two dots above it that determines a feminine word, or sign. This tied circle transforms into the moon, a stone that binds friendship, birdsong over ruins, three kidnapped women, and a hymn to Nisaba, the goddess of writing. A section of "Iraqi haiku" unfolds like Sumerian symbols carved onto clay tablets, transmuted into the stuff of our ordinary, daily life. In another poem, Mikhail defines the Sumerian word for freedom, Ama-ar-gi, as "what seeps out / from the dead into our dreams."
Book Synopsis The War Works Hard by : Dunya Mikhail
Download or read book The War Works Hard written by Dunya Mikhail and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2005-04-29 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mikhail’s poetic vision transcends cultural and linguistic boundaries with liberating compassion. Revolutionary poetry by an exiled Iraqi woman. Winner of a 2004 PEN Translation Fund Award. "Yesterday I lost a country," Dunya Mikhail writes in The War Works Hard, a revolutionary work by an exiled Iraqi poether first to appear in English. Amidst the ongoing atrocities in Iraq, here is an important new voice that rescues the human spirit from the ruins, unmasking the official glorification of war with telegraphic lexical austerity. Embracing literary traditions from ancient Mesopotamian mythology to Biblical and Qur'anic parables to Western modernism, Mikhail's poetic vision transcends cultural and linguistic boundaries with liberating compassion.
Book Synopsis The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq by : Dunya Mikhail
Download or read book The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq written by Dunya Mikhail and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of a beekeeper who risks his life to rescue enslaved women from Daesh Since 2014, Daesh (ISIS) has been brutalizing the Yazidi people of northern Iraq: sowing destruction, killing those who won’t convert to Islam, and enslaving young girls and women. The Beekeeper, by the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail, tells the harrowing stories of several women who managed to escape the clutches of Daesh. Mikhail extensively interviews these women—who’ve lost their families and loved ones, who’ve been sexually abused, psychologically tortured, and forced to manufacture chemical weapons—and as their tales unfold, an unlikely hero emerges: a beekeeper, who uses his knowledge of the local terrain, along with a wide network of transporters, helpers, and former cigarette smugglers, to bring these women, one by one, through the war-torn landscapes of Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, back into safety. In the face of inhuman suffering, this powerful work of nonfiction offers a counterpoint to Daesh’s genocidal extremism: hope, as ordinary people risk their own lives to save those of others.
Book Synopsis Listen to the Mourners by : Nāzik Al-Malā’ika
Download or read book Listen to the Mourners written by Nāzik Al-Malā’ika and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of the first book-length English translations of Nāzik Al-Malā’ika’s Arabic poetry. One of the most influential Iraqi poets of the twentieth century, Nāzik Al-Malā’ika pioneered the modern Arabic verse movement when she broke away from the formalistic classical modes of Arabic poetry that had prevailed for more than fifteen centuries. Along with ʻAbdulwahhāb Al-Bayyāti and Badre Shākir Al-Sayyāb, she paved the way for the birth of a new modernist poetic movement in the Arab world. Until now, very little of Al-Malā’ika’s poetry has been translated into English. Listen to the Mourners contains forty of her most significant poems selected from six published volumes, including Life Tragedy and a Song for Man, The Woman in Love with the Night, Sparks and Ashes, The Wave’s Nadir, The Moon Tree, and The Sea Alters Its Colours. These poems show the beginning of her development from the late romantic orientation in Arabic poetry toward a more psychological approach. Her poetic form shows a significant liberation from the traditional two-hemistich line in traditional Arabic poetry, which adheres to the traditional Arabic measures of prosody and rhyme. ‘Abdulwāḥid Lu’lu’a’s introduction functions as a critical analysis of the liberated verse movement of the era and situates the poet among her Arab and Western counterparts. This accessible, beautifully rendered, and long overdue translation fills a gap in modern Arabic poetry in translation and will interest students and scholars of Iraqi literature, Middle East studies, women’s studies, and comparative literature.
Book Synopsis This Room Is Waiting by : Ryan Van Winkle
Download or read book This Room Is Waiting written by Ryan Van Winkle and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UK poets Jen Hadfield, winner of the TS Eliot Prize, Billy Letford, Krystelle Bamford, and John Glenday collaborate with four contemporary Iraqi poets, including acclaimed Zahir Mousa, Sabreen Kadhim, and Kurdish Iraqi, Awezan Nouri. Working with literal translations of the Arabic and Kurdish poems, the English language poets have created new "versions," startling works that channel the anger, fear, hurt, hope, joy, and fragile optimism of the originals, reconnecting readers with the realities of real life in post-invasion Iraq, far beyond the banalities of cyclical western media stories. "What if it was our culture, our country that was invaded?" is the question asked. This Room is Waiting fashions an extraordinary portrait of a country rebuilding after war.
Download or read book Lanterns of Hope written by and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-18 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lanterns of Hope, undertaken with the support of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, was designed to showcase poetic talent across Iraq, in Arabic, Kurdish, and English. This project casts light on the experiences of a remarkable group of young Iraqi poets, whose work attempts to discern meaning of what from a distance may appear to be incomprehensible.
Book Synopsis Flowers of Flame: Unheard Voices of Iraq by : Sadek Mohammed
Download or read book Flowers of Flame: Unheard Voices of Iraq written by Sadek Mohammed and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Iraq's poets have suffered imprisonment, exile, and death for the truths they have dared to tell. Poetry is not a luxury in Iraq, but a vital part of the struggle for the nation's future. This is poetry that is feared by tyrants and would-be tyrants. You will find joy here as well as struggle. Arabic poetry has a long and rich tradition of ecstatic love, whimsical humor, and philosophic insight. Remarkably, charm and lightness of touch abound. Even the war invites you to a picnic from which you will not return untouched. Many of these poems were written in response to the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. "Tomorrow the War Will Have a Picnic," for instance, was composed on the eve of the "shock and awe" campaign against Baghdad. We see here, through Iraqi eyes, the fall of Saddam's statue, his trial, the ongoing sectarian violence, and the foreign invaders on both sides of the struggle."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Listen to the Mourners by : Nāzik Al-Malā'ika
Download or read book Listen to the Mourners written by Nāzik Al-Malā'ika and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of the first book-length English translations of Nāzik Al-Malā'ika's Arabic poetry. One of the most influential Iraqi poets of the twentieth century, Nāzik Al-Malā'ika pioneered the modern Arabic verse movement when she broke away from the formalistic classical modes of Arabic poetry that had prevailed for more than fifteen centuries. Along with ʻAbdulwahhāb Al-Bayyāti and Badre Shākir Al-Sayyāb, she paved the way for the birth of a new modernist poetic movement in the Arab World. Until now, very little of Al-Malā'ika's poetry has been translated into English. Listen to the Mourners contains forty of her most significant poems selected from six published volumes, including Life Tragedy and a Song for Man, The Woman in Love with the Night, Sparks and Ashes, The Wave's Nadir, The Moon Tree, and The Sea Alters Its Colours. These poems show the beginning of her development from the late romantic orientation in Arabic poetry toward a more psychological approach. Her poetic form shows a significant liberation from the traditional two-hemistich line in traditional Arabic poetry, which adheres to the traditional Arabic measures of prosody and rhyme. 'Abdulwāḥid Lu'lu'a's foreword functions as a critical analysis of the liberated verse movement of the era, and situates the poet among her Arab and Western counterparts. This accessible, beautifully rendered, and long overdue translation fills a gap in modern Arabic poetry in translation and will interest students and scholars of Iraqi literature, Middle East studies, women's studies, and comparative literature.
Book Synopsis The Poetry of Sadi Yusuf by : Yair Huri
Download or read book The Poetry of Sadi Yusuf written by Yair Huri and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sa'di Yusuf has long been acknowledged as Iraq's foremost living poet and one of the pre-eminent modernists of Arabic poetry. This book aims to provide a comprehensive look at Yusuf's literary accomplishments through thematic analysis and close readings that place his texts within wider literary contexts.
Book Synopsis Poems That Do Not Sleep by : Hassan Al Nawwab
Download or read book Poems That Do Not Sleep written by Hassan Al Nawwab and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hassan Al Nawwab is a former Iraqi soldier who came to Australia after the war with his family 20 years ago. With devastating simplicity, these imagistic poems speak of war and terror, of homesickness in exile, the blessings of peace and the pain of belonging. The collection is in two parts, &‘Tree Flying' and &‘Diaspora', and each poem is presented with its counterpart in Arabic on the opposite page, as translated from English by the poet himself.
Book Synopsis Mohammad Hussein Al-Yaseen: Poetry on Poetry by : Haitham Kamil al-Zubbaidi
Download or read book Mohammad Hussein Al-Yaseen: Poetry on Poetry written by Haitham Kamil al-Zubbaidi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lifelong poetic career of a major contemporary Iraqi poet is explored via a translation of a representative selection of his poems which are directly concerned with poetry and poeticism. A serious effort is clearly manifested by the translator who thematically selected, arranged and critically introduced these poems. This book serves the purposes of all readers who are interested in Arabic literature, poetry and culture.
Book Synopsis Buland Al-Ḥaidari and Modern Iraqi Poetry by : Buland Al-Ḥaidari
Download or read book Buland Al-Ḥaidari and Modern Iraqi Poetry written by Buland Al-Ḥaidari and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliant book, ʻAbdulwāḥid Lu’lu’a translates and introduces eighty poems from one of the pioneers of modern Arabic poetry, Buland Al-Ḥaidari. Buland Al-Ḥaidari might fairly be considered the fourth pillar holding up the dome of modern Arabic poetry. Alongside his famous contemporaries Nāzik al-Malā'ika, Badre Shākir Al-Sayyāb, and ‘Abdulwahhāb Al-Bayyāti, Al-Ḥaidari likewise made significant contributions to the development of twentieth-century Arabic poetry, including the departure from the traditional use of two-hemistich verses in favor of what has been called the Arabic “free verse” form. A few of Al-Ḥaidari’s poems have been translated into English separately, but no book-length translation of his poetry has been published until now. In Buland Al-Ḥaidari and Modern Iraqi Poetry, ʻAbdulwāḥid Lu’lu’a translates eighty of Al-Ḥaidari’s most important poems, giving English-speaking readers access to this rich corpus. Lu’lu’a’s perceptive introduction acquaints readers with the contours of Al-Ḥaidari’s life and situates his work in the context of modern Arabic poetry. The translated pieces not only illustrate the depth of Al-Ḥaidari’s poetic imagination but also showcase the development of his style, from the youthful romanticism of his first collection Clay Throb (1946) to the detached pessimism of his Songs of the Dead City (1951). Selections are also included from his later collections Steps in Exile (1965), The Journey of Yellow Letters (1968), and Songs of the Tired Guard (1977). These poems paint a vivid picture of the literary and poetic atmosphere in Baghdad and Iraq from the mid-1940s to the close of the twentieth century.
Book Synopsis Arif Al-Sa'idi: Selected Poems by : Haitham Kamil al-Zubbaidi
Download or read book Arif Al-Sa'idi: Selected Poems written by Haitham Kamil al-Zubbaidi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arif Al-Sa'idi is a contemporary Iraqi poet who connects us to an ancient past. Through his poems, we may experience a mystical realm that is suspended in time. We may travel through desert sands to the heart of the Middle East -- to a place as timeless as life itself -- to catch a glimpse of the spirit of our distant ancestors. From the anguish of a restless soul residing in purgatory, to a father's love for his four-year-old son, Al-Sa'idi invites us to ponder the most fundamental aspects of our existence, both the earthly and the ethereal. He speaks to our ultimate quest for peace and fulfillment. Where did we come from, and where are we going? Straight from the Cradle of Civilization, Arif Al-Sa'idi brings us a rich and profound expression of the human experience.
Book Synopsis Iraqi Poetry Today by : Saadi Simawe
Download or read book Iraqi Poetry Today written by Saadi Simawe and published by Modern Poetry in Translation. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First major collection of modern Iraqi poetry available in the West.
