Middle Eastern
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Shrapnel Maps
$22.00 Add to cartWriting into the wounds and reverberations of the Israel/Palestine conflict, Philip Metres’ fourth book of poems, Shrapnel Maps, is at once elegiac and activist, an exploratory surgery to extract the… [more below]
- Author: Metres, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: April 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1556595638
- Language: English
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Exhausted on the Cross
$16.00 Add to cartA much-anticipated follow-up to Nothing More to Lose, this is only the second poetry collection translated into English from a vital voice of Arabic literature.
“We drag histories behind us,” the Pale- Author: Darwish, Najwan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1681375524
- Language: English
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The Threshold: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartA selection of luminous, fiercely intelligent verse from Egypt’s premier poet.
Iman Mersal is Egypt’s–indeed, the Arab world’s–great outsider poet. Over the past three decades, she has crafted a voi- Author: Mersal, Iman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0374607850
- Language: English
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Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?
$21.00 Add to cartMahmoud Darwish is one of the greatest poets of our time. In his poetry Palestine becomes the map of the human soul.
— Elias Khoury
The book tugs at the reader’s heart page after page, poem after … [more below]- Author: Darwish, Mahmoud
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 197
- Publish Date: August 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0976395010
- Language: English
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The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai
$31.18 Add to cartYehuda Amichai (1924-2000) was Israel’s most popular poet, as well as a literary figure of international reputation. In this collection, renowned translators Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell have sele… [more below]
- Series: Literature of the Middle East
- Author: Amichai, Yehuda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 15 2013
- ISBN10: 520275837
- Language: English
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O
$20.00 Read moreNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2022 BY LIT HUB AND THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
“O is so full of music and passion for life . . . Zeina Hashem Beck’s poems unfold the abundance of our world.” –Ilya Kaminsky, au… [more below]- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Hashem Beck, Zeina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0143136895
- Language: English
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Unceded Land
$18.00 Add to cartIssam Zineh’s debut collection Unceded Land is a lyrical marvel, tracing the lines of intimacy, loss, and colonial legacy. With an eye that wanders from the subtly beautiful to the crushingly blunt, h
- Author: Zineh, Issam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: July 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1949487121
- Language: English
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Through Love Pain Is Healed: 101 Poems of the Heart
$14.99 Add to cartJalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273), an eminent Persian Sufi poet, lived and taught the path of love. This is a collection of 101 short poems by Rumi centered on the heart and various stages of love: Longing,
- Author: Rumi, Jalaluddin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: July 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0985056878
- Language: English
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Born Upon the Dark Spear
$18.00 Add to cartChasm. Mist. Dark Song. Hour of Execution. Behind the Wall. These are just some of the poetic titles of Ahmad Shamlu (1925-2000) that together form the cipher to one of the most powerful figures in mo… [more below]
- Author: Shamlu, Ahmad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: December 25 2015
- ISBN10: 1940625165
- Language: English
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I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan
$18.00 Add to cartAfghans revere poetry, particularly the high literary forms that derive from Persian or Arabic. But the poem above is a folk couplet-a landay, an ancient oral and anonymous form created by and for mos
- Author: Griswold, Eliza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535183
- Language: English
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War Songs
$17.00 Add to cartPoems of love and battle by Arabia’s legendary warrior
From the sixth-century highlands of Najd in the Arabian peninsula, on the eve of the advent of Islam, come the strident cries of a legendary war- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #41
- Author: Shadd?d, ?antarah Ibn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 147985879X
- Language: English
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Time
$16.95 Read moreWINNER of the INTERNATIONAL GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE
WINNER of the BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD
FINALIST for the 2020 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD
On October 27, 2003, Adnan received a post card of a palm tree fro
- Author: Adnan, Etel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 18 2019
- ISBN10: 1643620045
- Language: English
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Rumi: The Big Red Book: The Great Masterpiece Celebrating Mystical Love and Friendship
$19.99 Add to cart“Really, what other book would anyone ever need?” –Naomi Shihab Nye, author of Honeybee
“Elegant and exquisite.” –Deepak Chopra, author of Muhammad, Jesus, and Buddha
The Big Red Book is a poetic mast
- Author: Barks, Coleman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0061905836
- Language: English
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The Translator of Desires: Poems
$24.95 Add to cartA masterpiece of Arabic love poetry in a new and complete English translation
The Translator of Desires, a collection of sixty-one love poems, is the lyric masterwork of Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi (1165-124- Series: Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation #147
- Author: Sells, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0691181349
- Language: English
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The Little Book of Love
$10.99 Add to cartA gorgeous and original gift for any occasion
One of the world’s favourite poets, Kahlil Gibran was never more profound than when he wrote about love. He believed it was the raison d’?re of the univer- Author: Gibran, Kahlil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1786072815
- Language: English
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Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine
$16.00 Add to cartBefore the Next Bomb Drops explores the Israeli occupation of Palestine and US militarism through a poetic lens.
- Author: Kanazi, Remi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1608465241
- Language: English
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The Twenty-Ninth Year
$18.99 Add to cartWild, lyrical poems that examine the connections between physical and interior migration, from award-winning Palestinian American poet, novelist, and clinical psychologist Hala Alyan, author of Salt H
- Author: Alyan, Hala
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 29, 2019
- ISBN10: 1328511944
- Language: English
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Rumi’s Little Book of Love: 150 Poems That Speak to the Heart
$14.95 Add to cartRumi, one of the most celebrated mystics of all time, chose poetry to communicate his deep spiritual experiences. His language, that of love in its purest form, speaks to us today as it did seven hund… [more below]
- Author: Mafi, Maryam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 1, 2017
- ISBN10: 1938289269
- Language: English
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The Adam of Two Edens
$19.95 Add to cartA collection of poems by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. The poems range from dreamy reflections to bitter longings for the Palestine that was lost when Israel was created in 1948.Mahoud Darwish has
- Series: Arab American Writing
- Author: Darwish, Mahmoud
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: November 1, 2000
- ISBN10: 0815607105
- Language: English
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The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
$17.99 Add to cartFrom the author of The Arsonists’ City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that traces the fragmentation of memory, archive, and family-past, present, future-in the face of displacem
- Author: Alyan, Hala
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 12, 2024
- ISBN10: 0063317478
- Language: English
