Middle Eastern

This collection of poetry by the celebrated southern Iranian poet and filmmaker Roja Chamankar (b. 1981) introduces English-speaking readers to one of the most accomplished and well-loved poets of her generation. Chamankar's work blends surrealism and...

This English-Hebrew book features three dozen poems by the extraordinary Israeli writer Orit Gidali (b. 1974), a unique voice among her contemporaries. Gidali's work appears to focus on the domestic, but for her, the domestic sphere is the stage on which...

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...

This is one of the first book-length English translations of Nazik Al-Mala'ika's Arabic poetry. One of the most influential Iraqi poets of the twentieth century, Nazik Al-Mala'ika pioneered the modern Arabic verse movement when she broke away from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845231149Author Jacqueline BishopFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Peepal Tree Press LtdPublisher Peepal Tree Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588141330Author Mandana ZandianFormat PaperbackPage Count 105Imprint IBEX Publishers,U.S.Publisher IBEX Publishers,U.S.Weight(grams) 166g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780268205300Author Buland Al-ḤaidariFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint University of Notre Dame PressPublisher University of Notre Dame Press

Deftly making use of historically specific events, Raghead examines the Gulf War, relaying untold narratives of occupation and warfare, as well as addressing the violence the war inflicted on the female body and on the land itself. In these poems, Eman...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604864854Author Ahmed AkbarFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 167g

In his poems of memory and displacement, Iranian poet Mohsen Emadi charts his experience of exile with vivid, often haunting, imagery and a child's love of language. Lyn Coffin's translations from the Persian allow Emadi's poems to inhabit the English...

'Very few collections bring home so powerfully the vulnerability of individuals in the face of history' writes Lisa Gorton of Robyn Rowland's powerful poems recording the experiences of soldiers, nurses and doctors, women munitions workers, wives,...

A Suburb of Heaven is a collection built from observation and speculation. Based on artist Stanley Spencer's work in the first section and the part-imagined life of Anna O, patient zero of psychoanalysis, in the second, it is a feast for the senses...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597842754Author Nimah Ismail NawwabFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint The Light IncPublisher Tughra BooksWeight(grams) 420g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597842693Author Nimah Ismail NawwabFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint The Light IncPublisher Tughra BooksWeight(grams) 308g

The poet and Talmud scholar examines Jewish texts, sexuality, and human vulnerability in poems that brim with wonder, sadness, sensuality, and humor. Kosman’s second volume in English explores Jewish texts —Bible, Talmud, midrash — alongside bodies,...

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 teacher, a good poet, a good father. With These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652293459Author Natan YonatanFormat HardbackPage Count 143Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 466g

Simin Behbahani’s collection contains some of the most formative work of twentieth-century Persian literature. Written over almost a half-century, much of her poetry reflects the traumatic experiences that have shaped Iranian history: revolution and war...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988168692Author Sareh FarmandFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint At Bay PressPublisher At Bay PressWeight(grams) 142g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780268205317Author Buland Al-ḤaidariFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint University of Notre Dame PressPublisher University of Notre Dame Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566567343Author Sharif S ElmusaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, IncWeight(grams) 150g

This book, first published in 1978, treats methods of describing the total and special vocabularies of a given text and demonstrates a procedure of description of the vocabulary of the Sufi Mathnavi poem Tariq-ut-tahqiq, composed in the middle of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949445329Author Mojdeh BaharFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Mage PublishersPublisher Mage PublishersWeight(grams) 113g

Mirror of Dew introduces one of Iran's outstanding female poets, whose work has not previously been available in English. Zhale Qa'em-Maqami (1883-1946) was a witness to pivotal social and political developments in Iran during its transition to modernity...

In his first English-language collection, Moroccan-Dutch poet Mustafa Stitou marks his position as one of the most important poets of his generation. Two Half Faces collects work from across Stitou's career as he grapples in his poetry with his position...

This is a creative and analytical study which brings to life the important facets of classical Persian poetry. This imaginative and accessible study of the lyrical, humorous, social and educational aspects of classical Persian poetry focuses on the works...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934414361Author Ms Ece TemelkuranFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint BOA Editions, LimitedPublisher BOA Editions, LimitedWeight(grams) 184g

?Shepherd of Solitude is the first English collection for Jordanian poet Amjad Nasser, translated and introduced by the foremost translator of contemporary Arabic poetry into English Khaled Mattawa, with the poems selected by poet and translator from the...

Winner, 2017 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize.In the magic my body becomes, Jess Rizkallah seeks a vernacular for the inescapable middle ground of being Arab American- a space that she finds, at times, to be too Arab for America and too American for her Lebanese...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935218357Author Zeina Hashem BeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint The Backwaters PressPublisher The Backwaters Press

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A poignant engagement from the perspective of a rooted Palestinian diaspora grappling with history, territory and colonialism with a keen eye for unknotting emotions, recording beauty, and recognising love.

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A haunting, lyrical meditation on memory, loss, and homeland, with the poems threading together the personal and the collective in a Palestine shaped by conflict and beauty.The Town I Never Told You About gathers poems written by celebrated Palestinian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623715823Author Marilyn HackerFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc

A collection of poems from a changing Bedouin worldBedouin Poets of the Nafud Desert features poetry from three poets of the Ibn Rashid dynasty-the highwater mark of Bedouin culture in the nineteenth century. Khalaf Abu Zwayyid, 'Adwan al-Hirbid, and...

Explore the enchanting works of Rumi in this beautifully packaged poetry collection.For more than eight centuries, the poems of Persian mystic poet and Sufi master Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi Rumi have enthralled and inspired readers from every faith and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815638629Author Bugra GiritliogluFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Syracuse University PressPublisher Syracuse University PressDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

A collection of poems about nature and power To Ibn al-Mu'tazz and his Abbasid contemporaries, the hunt was more than a diversion-it was the theater for their poetic and political endeavors, captured here in fifty-nine Arabic hunting poems, or tardiyyat...