Miracle Maker: The Selected Poems of Fadhil Al-Azzawi

by Fadhil Al-Azzawi, Khaled Mattawa (Translator)

Overview

This collection features poems from Al-Azzawi’s six previous Arabic poetry collections and many new poems. Springing from classical Arabic poetry, his poems speak to political exile, -cultural marginalization, and Middle Eastern and Western histories and mythologies. Al-Azzawi employs -humor, melancholy and tenderness to celebrate new worlds of possibility.

Fadhil Al-Azzawi was born in 1940 in Kirkuk, Iraq. By the time he was -fifteen, he was publishing poems in the leading Arab literary magazines in Beirut and Baghdad. Al-Azzawi -currently lives in London.

Khaled Mattawa (Translator) is the author of a -collection of poetry, Ismailia Eclipse, and the translator of two books of contemporary Arabic poetry, Hatif Janabi’s Questions and Their Retinue and Saddi Youssef’s Without an Alphabet, Without a Face.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781929918447
Publisher:	BOA Editions, Ltd.
Publication date:	11/01/2003
Series:	Lannan Translations Series , #4
Pages:	130
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.50(d)