Victims of a Map: A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry

by Abdullah al-Udhari (Translator), Adonis, Samih al-Qasim, Mahmud Darwish

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'Victims of a Map' presents fifteen translated poems by each poet. It includes thirteen poems by Darwish never before published in book form, even in Arabic, and a long work by Adonis written during the 1982 siege of Beirut, also published here for the first time.

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Abdullah al-Udhari was born in Taiz, Yemen, in 1941, and has lived in London since 1962. He studied classical Arab literature and Sabaean epigraphy at London University, where he also received a doctorate
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Poetry, Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS
892.716Literature & rhetoricLiteratures of other languagesAfro-Asiatic literaturesArabic (Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sudan)Arabic poetry1945–2000
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PJ7694 .E3 .D37Language and LiteratureOriental languages and literaturesOriental philology and literatureArabicArabic literature
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