And We Still Have the Sea. Revolt Against the Sun ; Elegy for a Drowned Man ; Night Lover ; To the Poet Keats -- Poems from Shrapnel and Ash (1949): The Train Passed By ; Elegy for an Unimportant Day ; At the End of the Stairs ; Song of the Abyss ; To My Late Aunt ; Cholera ; A Funeral for Happiness ; Accusations -- Poems from At the Bottom of the Wave (1957): To a Girl Sleeping in the Street ; Elegy for a Woman of No Importance ; Three Elegies for my Mother: III. A Song for Sadness ; II. The Arrival of Sadness ; III. The Black Flower ; Killing a Dancer ;- When I Killed My Love ; Words ; An Invitation to Life -- Poems from The Moon Tree (1968):- The Moon Tree ; Greetings to the Iraqi Republic ; A Song for the Arab Ruins ; A Song for the Moon ; Three Communist Songs -- Poems from For Prayer and Revolution (1978):- Sleeping Beauty ; A Letter from Him ; A Letter to Him ; Headlines and Advertisements in an Arab Newspaper -- Poem from The Sea Changes Its Colors (1977):- And We Still Have the Sea.
Summary:
"The Iraqi poet Nazik al-Mala'ika was one of the most important Arab poets of the twentieth century. Over the course of a four-decade career, her contributions to both the theory and the practice of free verse (or tafʿilah) poetry confirmed her position as a pioneer of Arab modernism. Revolt Against the Sun presents a selection of Nazik al-Mala'ika's poetry in English for the first time. Bringing together poems from each of her published collections, it traces al-Mala'ika's transformation from a lyrical Romantic poet in the 1940s to a fervently committed Arab nationalist in the 1970s and 1980s. The translations offer both an overview of her life and work, and an insight into the political and social realities in the Arab world in the decades following the Second World War. Featuring a comprehensive historical and critical introduction, this bilingual reader reveals how one woman transformed the landscape of modern Arabic literature and culture in the twentieth century. It is a key resource for students and teachers of Arabic and world literature, as well as for readers interested in discovering an alternative narrative of modern Iraqi culture." -- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.