San Antonio College Library

"Nizar Kabbani's poetry has been described as "more powerful than all the Arab regimes put together" (Lebanese Daily Star). 'Arabian Love Poems' is the first English-language collection of his work. Kabbani was a poet of great simplicity - direct, spontaneous, musical, using the language of everyday life. He was a ceaseless campaigner for women's rights, and his verses praise the beauty of the female body, and of love. He was an Arab nationalist,...

From the Publisher: Almond Blossoms and Beyond is one of the last collections of poetry that Mahmoud Darwish left to the world. Composed of brief lyric poems and the magnificent sustained Exile cycle, Almond Blossoms holds an important place in Darwish's unparalleled oeuvre. It distills his late style, in which, though the specter of death looms and weddings turn to funerals, he threads the pulses and fragilities and beauties of life into the lines...

"For the first time in English, this book offers a critical appraisal of Darwish's work, from the earliest poetry to more recent works such as State of Siege, Don't Apologize for What You've Done, and Why Have You Left the Horse Alone? Here is the work of scholars and poets who examine the complex connections between poetry, myth, lyric, prose, and history in Darwish's work. Articles situate his writing in relation to both modern Arabic and world...