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Title: The Poetry of Arab Women by Nathalie Handal ISBN: 1-56656-374-7 Publisher: Interlink Publishing Group Pub. Date: October, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A long good look into a fascinating world
Comment: The editor of this book, Nathalie Handal, deserves commendation for her work. If you hold the common view of Arab women as submissive and repressed beings, this book might be the thing for you. Even though repression and sexual discrimination may be harsher in Arab societies than in our Western world, that seems to be only one side of reality. What this anthology shows us is strong-willed, sensitive and opinionated women, who are also highly skilled in that most demanding of crafts - poetry. Inevitably, some of the poems are better than others. But the first alone justify buying the book, for they are VERY good. The translations are also (as far as one can ascertain through taste and personal intuition) good, with the possible exception of Munia Samara's poems, where the translator several times seems to refer to a city as both "it" and "she", occassionally in the same line: "It has not surrendered her keys to one prophet", "it opens its windows / and throws a bone / to the barking Napoleon around her walls".
Notwithstanding these minor flaws, the book is enjoyable and worthwhile as a field guide for discovering the fascination of the Arab world and its remarkable women poets.
Rating: 4
Summary: highly recommended
Comment: Arab women have been writing poetry since the dawn of time. Reading modern poerty by Arab women however is a delight. This book encompasses poems that reveal the struggle of being an Arab in the U.S, the struggle of migration, war, occupation, and the struggle of cultural identity.
I highly recommend this book to those who love poetry and those who wish to understand what it means to be an Arabic women living in the United States.
Rating: 5
Summary: The women do it again :-)
Comment: The newest anthology of modern Arab women's poetry, this anthology not only presents powerful and moving works of poetry but also breaks dangerous streotypes about Arab women.
Also check Nathalie Handal's 'The Neverfield Poem'
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Title: Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature by Salma Khadra Jayyusi ISBN: 023107509X Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $29.00 |
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Title: Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems by Mahmud Darwish, Munir Akash, Carolyn Forche ISBN: 0520237544 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 06 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 by Mahmud Darwish, Ibrahim Muhawi ISBN: 0520087682 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Modern Arabic Poetry by Salma Khadra Jayyusi ISBN: 0231052731 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1991 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Iraqi Poetry Today by Daniel Weissbort, Saadi S. Simawe ISBN: 095338246X Publisher: Zephyr Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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