Arabic Poetry: Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition

cUmar al-Khayymm and an anonymous Japanese poet are also quoted, for the acculturated protagonist lives at an intersection of cu ...

taking a liminal paratextual space, a prefatory matter to the body or the text, it raises problems and invites questions. Upon d ...

the possibility of rebirth, usually associated with cultural resurrection. As the present thwarts all these beliefs and expectat ...

Indeed, al-Baymtl’s engagement with Eliot’s primary images ignites light, warmth, and keen recollections in the Iraqi poet’s tex ...

Huxley, nor does he settle for the supposedly mystical East. In other words, identity can never be restored through mimicry. To ...

with the martyred mystic al->allmj (d. 922/309 H) al-Baymtl’s “cAdhmbmt al->allmj” (The Sufferings of al->allmj) shows ...

Give back life to us You have our pledge To establishing, with the warmest tears, Citadels for poetry, the keys to them from the ...

troubled than the poet is, for both suffer destruction, “blood and smoke” (pt. 2), but paradoxically without losing their powers ...

songs are available, however, to rescue poetry from self-elegizing. Ma.mnd Darwlsh sees in Lorca his vocation as a poet, not for ...

“Marthiyyah ilm Nmzim >ikmat” (Elegy to Nmzim >ikmat), al-Baymtl rephrases interaction as follows, “The virgin wave / plai ...

In application, there is much in al-Baymtl’s prefatory matter to his “Kitmbah calmqabr al-Sayymb” / “Writing on al-Sayymb’s Tomb ...

The poem allows al-Sayymb’s register to intrude into the elegy, blending it with images, such as the thirsty butterflies, which ...

“Marthiyyah” (elegy), addressed to al-Sayymb, makes use of the latter’s poetry, its register and significant tropes and implicat ...

longing of the whole Tammnzltradition. >mwl’s “Lazarus” sets the tone for a dismaying image of the present and the future. Tr ...

poems of transgressive poetics, along with recollections from the registers of socio-political suffering. As an intertext for so ...

background, and evolving the whole scene into another dawn of prophecy, revolution, and change. Poetry is the religion of presen ...

physical death: “I arise after death/ To be born in unborn cities/ And to die.”^72 Indeed, al-Baymtl’s poet never sounds availab ...

meant to detract from the dedicatee’s presence. Embarking on the completion of >mwl’s texts, and sublimating his own register ...

anger at the human condition. In other words, the dedicatee’s decision to put an end to his life is subsumed in a scene of frust ...

Al-Baymtl’s reading is not identical with that of another contemporary, cAll A.mad Sacld, Adnnls (Adonis). His Mutanabblis a per ...