71 Al-Baymtl, “Al-Wilmdah”/“The Birth,” trans. Frangieh, Love, Death and Exile,
pp. 282–83.
72 Al-Baymtl, “Al-Wilmdah fi Mudun lam Tnlad,” “Birth in Unborn Cities,” trans.
Frangieh,Love, Death and Exile, pp. 278–79.
73 Al-Baymtl, “Al-Nuqqmd al-Adciym” (False Critics) trans. Frangieh Love, Death
and Exile, p. 279.
74 cAbd al-Wahhmb al-Baymtl, “I am Born and Burnt in Love,” trans. Masri Abdul
Wahab Al-Baymtl: Love under the Rain, n. p.; al-Baymtl, Al-Acmml al-shicriyyah, 2,
p. 387.
75 Harold Bloom, “The Breaking of Form,” in Deconstruction and Criticism: Harold
Bloom, Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, J. Hillis,Miller, ed. Harold Bloom (New
York: Seabury Press, 1979), pp. 1–37, p. 6.
76 Michel Foucault The Foucault Reader, ed. Paul Rabinow (London: Penguin,
1984), p. 40.
77 Al-Baymtl’s “Al->ixmr”/“The Siege” was written in 1988; see Al-Acmml
al-shicriyyah, 2, p. 521–22.
78 Al-Baymti, “To Nazim Hikmet” in Al-A‘mal al-shi‘riyyah, 1, p. 472.
79 Derrida, Given Time, p. 87.
80 “Al-Mutanabbl,” in al-Baymtl, Al-Acmml al-shicriyyah, 1, p. 483.
81 Ibid., p. 481.
82 On al-Mutanabbl’s lineage, see cAbd al-Ghanlal-Mallm., Al-Mutanabbl
Yastariddu Abmh(Al-MutanabblRegains His Father) (Beirut: Al-Mu’assasah
al-cArabiyyah, n.d.).
83 cAll A.mad Sacld (Adnnls), Dlwmn al-Shicr al-cArabl, 2 vols (Beirut:
Al-Maktabah al-cAxriyyah, 1964) 2, pp. 342–68.
84 cAllAhmad Sacld (Adnnls), Al-Kitmb: Ams al-makmn al-mn: Makhynyah tunsab
lil-Mutanabbl(The Book Yesterday, The Place Now: A Manuscript Attributed
to al-Mutanabbl), 2 vols. (Beirut: Al-Smql, 1993).
85 Bloom, Anxiety of Influence, p. 139.
86 Adnnls, Al-Kitmb, p. 28.
87 Adonis, Ali Ahmed Said, The Blood of Adonis, trans. Samuel Hazo (Pittsburgh:
The University of Pittsburgh Press, 1971), pp. 46–54, at p. 46.
88 Given Time, p. 86.
89 Cited in Claude Addas, Quest for the Red Sulphur: The Life of Ibn ‘Arabl, trans.
Peter Kingsley (Cambridge: The Islamic Texts Society, Golden Palm Series,
1993), p. 102.
90 Mahmoud Darwish, Selected Poems. Introduced and Translated by Ian Wedde and
Fawwaz Tuqan (Cheshire: Carcanet Press, 1973), p. 88.
91 Ibid., pp. 82–86, at p. 83.
92 Ibid.
93 Ibid., p. 85.
94 Ibid.
95 Ibid.
96 Ibid.
97 Modern Poetry of the Arab World, trans., Abdullah al-Udhari (Harmondsworth,
Middlesex, New York: Penguin, 1986), p. 64.
98 First published Al-Jadid: A Review and Record of Arab Culture and Arts(Los
Angeles, CA: Nagam Cultural Project, 1998), 4, 24, p. 9. Al-Sayymb is the Iraqi
poet Badr Shmkir Al-Sayymb (1926–1964) who, with Nmzik al-Malm’ikah,
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