Arabic Poetry: Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition

damage, especially for the miserable. The association between loss and rain is underscored to perpetuate the juxtaposition that ...

Its rain refrain draws on the real and the mythical. Rain is worth reading in context of fertility rites or their revocation. It ...

“Waraqah min kitmb al-Andalus” (A Leaf from the book of al-Andalus), he builds on a famous muwashsha.by the Andalusian poet and ...

but he is more inclined toward the total experience, with its dialogic dimension that captures both the ecstatic and the real. I ...

words that possess the quality of presence in the lap of things” (Ibid. 165). He even draws on a saying by Khalll >mwlon lang ...

on a sense of dismay at the whole scene, including censorship and oppression, but it also applies a reversal poetic through a ca ...

dismay at a grim past and present: Chanting of banishment, exhaling flame, the carriages of exile breach the walls. Or are these ...

another. /It was my destiny to travel between deaths.”^41 The opening works in space, for its site recalls the deserted encampme ...

As elegy, this poem swerves from the canon. It shares with women’s elegy some sense of incitement and instigation, but this is c ...

Qabbmnl’s poem is one of negotiation among a number of registers and poetics. While it shares a purpose with tradition, its site ...

Notes PREFACE 1Abn‘Allal->asan Ibn Rashlq (d. 1064) quoting Ibn ‘Abbms, Al-‘Umdah flma.msin al-shi‘r wa-mdmbih wa-naqdih(The ...

NOTES 2 Literally: the word fa.lrefers to a camel stallion, especially preserved for breeding, not used for other purposes. Its ...

cracks not only in the geology of history, but also in the simple fact of the statement; it emerges in its historical irruption; ...

NOTES Quoted in John Mikhail Asfour, When the Words Burn: An Anthology of Modern Arabic Poetry: 1945–87(Dunvegan, ON: Cormorant, ...

53 See Elizabeth M. Baeten’s paraphrase of Cassirer, in The Magic Myth’s Abiding Power(New York: State University of New York Pr ...

NOTES 71 Cited from Zeine Zeine, The Emergence of Arab Nationalism(New York: Caravan Books, 1958), p. 130; and in Samira Haj, Th ...

87 Mahmoud Darwish, Psalms, trans., Ben Binnani (Colorado Springs, CO: Three Continents Press, 1994), p. 53. 88 Trans., Hussein ...

NOTES Relying in part on Noldeke and Sir Charles Lyall in the embedded quotes, Nicholson subscribed to a neoclassical tenet that ...

5 Eliot’s “The Function of Criticism” appeared in a number of translations, too, in 1951, 1957, 1964, and 1978. See Farld, “Atha ...

NOTES 24 Anynn Sa‘mdah was the leader of the SSNP, the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, and was a major influence on many intell ...