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Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet's Art and His Nation

Product Description: In Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet's Art and His Nation, Mattawa pays tribute to one of the most celebrated and well-read poets of our era. With detailed knowledge of Arabic verse and a firm grounding in Palestinian history, Mattawa explores the ways in which Darwish's aesthetics have played a crucial role in shaping and maintaining Palestinian identity and culture through decades of warfare, attrition, exile, and land confiscation...read more

By Khaled Mattawa

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9780815633617 | Syracuse Univ Pr, May 15, 2014, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet's Art and His Nation, Mattawa pays tribute to one of the most celebrated and well-read poets of our era.

Adonis: Selected Poems

By Adonis and Khaled Mattawa (trans)

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Hardcover:

9780300153064 | Yale Univ Pr, October 19, 2010, cover price $32.00

Paperback:

9780300181258 | Yale Univ Pr, April 24, 2012, cover price $20.00

Shepherd of Solitude: Selected Poems

Product Description: First poetry collection by London-based Jordanian poet in English translation by foremost Arabic poetry translator."With his unusually wide and expressive range Amjad Nasser unites the varied facets of his experience in a discourse at once perceptive, critical, tender, and ironically comic...read more

By Khaled Mattawa (trans)

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9780954966683, titled "Shepherd of Solitude: Selected Poems 1979-2204" | Italian edition edition (Interlink Pub Group Inc, May 1, 2010), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: First poetry collection by London-based Jordanian poet in English translation by foremost Arabic poetry translator.

Dinarzad's Children: An Anthology Of Contemporary Arab American Fiction

Product Description: The first edition of Dinarzadâs Children was a groundbreaking and popular anthology that brought to light the growing body of short fiction being written by Arab Americans. This expanded edition includes sixteen new stories Âthirty in allÂand new voices and is now organized into sections that invite readers to enter the stories from a variety of directions...read more

By Pauline Kaldas (editor) and Khaled Mattawa (editor)

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9781557289124 | 2 edition (Univ of Arkansas Pr, November 1, 2009), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The first edition of Dinarzadâs Children was a groundbreaking and popular anthology that brought to light the growing body of short fiction being written by Arab Americans.

9781557287816 | Univ of Arkansas Pr, November 1, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Collects short stories by contemporary Arab American writers including Patricia Sarrafian Ward, Joseph Geha, Mohja Kahf, Pauline Kaldas, and Frances Khirallah Noble.

Amorisco

Product Description: From “Heartsong”:And I say come like a stranger, like a featherfalling on an old woman’s shoulder, like a hawkthat comes to feed from her hands, come like a mystery,like sunlight rain, a blessing, a bus falling off a bridge,come like a deserting soldier, a murderer chased by law,like a girl prostitute escaping her pimp, come like a lost horse,like a dog dying of thirst, come love, come ragged and melancholylike the last day on earth, come like a sigh from a sick man,come like a whisper, like a bump on the road, like a flood,a dam breaking, turbines falling from the sky,come love like the stench of a swamp, a barrage of lightfilling a blind girl’s eye, come like a memoryconvulsing the body into sobs, like a carcass floating on a stream,come like a vision, come love like a crushing need,come like an afterthought...read more

By Khaled Mattawa

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9781931337441 | Ausable Pr, February 28, 2009, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: From “Heartsong”:And I say come like a stranger, like a featherfalling on an old woman’s shoulder, like a hawkthat comes to feed from her hands, come like a mystery,like sunlight rain, a blessing, a bus falling off a bridge,come like a deserting soldier, a murderer chased by law,like a girl prostitute escaping her pimp, come like a lost horse,like a dog dying of thirst, come love, come ragged and melancholylike the last day on earth, come like a sigh from a sick man,come like a whisper, like a bump on the road, like a flood,a dam breaking, turbines falling from the sky,come love like the stench of a swamp, a barrage of lightfilling a blind girl’s eye, come like a memoryconvulsing the body into sobs, like a carcass floating on a stream,come like a vision, come love like a crushing need,come like an afterthought.

These are not Oranges, My Love

Product Description: âMersal offers an exquisite daughter-to-father poem. Titled âThe Clot,â this sequence radiates with a combination of tenderness, humor and anguish unmatched in contemporary Arabic poetry.ââFrom the Introduction by Khaled Mattawa

By Khaled Mattawa (trans)

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9781931357548 | Sheep Meadow Pr, October 31, 2008, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: âMersal offers an exquisite daughter-to-father poem.

Invitation to a Secret Feast: Selected Poems

Product Description: Invitation to a Secret Feast is the 5th book of poetry by noted Lebanese poet Joumana Haddad, edited and with an introduction by Khaled Mattawa (who also did some of the translations). Haddads passionate, poetic voice is renowned throughout Europe and the Middle East, and Tupelo is very proud to be the first to publish her work in this country...read more

By Jourmana Haddad and Khaled Mattawa (editor)

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9781932195620 | Tupelo Pr, May 1, 2008, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Invitation to a Secret Feast is the 5th book of poetry by noted Lebanese poet Joumana Haddad, edited and with an introduction by Khaled Mattawa (who also did some of the translations).

Red Cherry on a White-tiled Floor: Selected Poems

Product Description: âMaram al-Massri comes as a shock. She writes about all the taboo subjectsâphysical passion, faithlessness, adultery, loneliness, despairâwith candor and intensity that would mark her out even to Westerners.ââThe Times (London)âHer direct, unadorned writing, with its emphasis on the quotidian, and utilization of simple, almost child-like metaphors, contrast sharply with the conventions of traditional Arabic love poetry...read more

By Maram Al-Massri and Khaled Mattawa (trans)

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9781556592645, titled "A Red Cherry on a White-tiled Floor: Selected Poems" | Copper Canyon Pr, November 29, 2007, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: âMaram al-Massri comes as a shock.

9781852246402, titled "A Red Cherry On A White-tiled Floor: Selected Poems" | Bilingual edition (Bloodaxe Books Ltd, October 15, 2004), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Maran al-Massri is an Arab poet for the modern age.

Miracle Maker: The Selected Poems of Fadhil Al-Azzawi

Product Description: This collection features poems from Al-Azzawiâs six previous Arabic poetry collections and many new poems. Springing from classical Arabic poetry, his poems speak to political exile, -cultural marginalization, and Middle Eastern and Western histories and mythologies...read more

By Fadil Azzawi and Khaled Mattawa (trans)

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9781929918447 | 1 edition (Boa Editions, November 1, 2003), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: This collection features poems from Al-Azzawiâs six previous Arabic poetry collections and many new poems.

Zodiac of Echoes

Product Description: Jahan Ramazani has written that “These dazzling lyrics and sequences create one of the most compelling portraits we have of a mind, a sensibility, a language emerging from the hybridization of cultures.”

By Khaled Mattawa

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9781931337168 | Ausable Pr, September 1, 2003, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Jahan Ramazani has written that “These dazzling lyrics and sequences create one of the most compelling portraits we have of a mind, a sensibility, a language emerging from the hybridization of cultures.

Zodiac of Echoes: Poems

Product Description: Jahan Ramazani has written that âThese dazzling lyrics and sequences create one of the most compelling portraits we have of a mind, a sensibility, a language emerging from the hybridization of cultures.â

By Khaled Mattawa

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9781931337045 | Ausable Pr, September 1, 2003, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Jahan Ramazani has written that âThese dazzling lyrics and sequences create one of the most compelling portraits we have of a mind, a sensibility, a language emerging from the hybridization of cultures.

Without an Alphabet, Without a Face: Selected Poems

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By Khaled Mattawa and Sadi Yusuf

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9781555973711 | Graywolf Pr, December 1, 2002, cover price $16.00

Post Gibran: Anthology of New Arab American Writing

Presents a collection of poetry, fiction, essays, and dramas by Arab American authors. (view table of contents)

By Munir Akash (editor) and Khaled Mattawa (editor)

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9780965203135 | Jusoor, January 1, 2000, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Presents a collection of poetry, fiction, essays, and dramas by Arab American authors.

Questions and Their Retinue: Selected Poems of Hatif Janabi

Product Description: Janabi's poems deal with war, death, perception, and truth, drawing from his family life, his exile in Poland, violence in Iraq, and his experience in the United States.

By Hatif Janabi and Khaled Mattawa (trans)

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9781557284327 | Univ of Arkansas Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Janabi's poems deal with war, death, perception, and truth, drawing from his family life, his exile in Poland, violence in Iraq, and his experience in the United States.

Ismailia Eclipse: Poems

Product Description: poetry, Libyan-American (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Khaled Mattawa

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9781878818447 | Sheep Meadow Pr, May 1, 1995, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: poetry, Libyan-American

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