Product Description: Poetry. This selection of poems and prose by Ahmed Rassim introduces English readers to the leading French-language Egyptian poet of the first half of the twentieth century. Admired by his fellow Alexandrian, Constantine Cavafy, Rassim's gently melancholic poems blend the antics of French surrealist writing with a highly personalized--one might call it "mock-arabesque"--oriental style...read more

Product Description: poetry, preeminent medieval Hebrew Andalusian poet

Product Description: Gabriel Levin's second collection builds confidently on his highly praised first. In graceful, exacting lyrics, he addresses subjects wrested from a stark, natural world of fire and ash' desert tints, and its diverse, vital heritage, with a rare sensitivity to the life of things past as well as present...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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