"Inspired, border-crossing work by a major American poet and translator Hymns & Qualms brings together MacArthur Fellow Peter Cole's acclaimed poetry and translations, weaving them into a helical whole. Praised for his "prosodic mastery" and "keen moral intelligence" (American Poets), and for the "rigor, vigor, joy, and wit" of his poetry (The Paris Review), Cole has created a vital, unclassifiable body of work that plumbs centuries of wisdom while paying sharp attention to the textures and tensions of the present. He is, Harold Bloom writes, "a matchless translator and one of the handful of authentic poets in his own American generation. Hymns & Qualms is a majestic work, a chronicle of the imaginative life of a profoundly spiritual consciousness." Cole is a maker--of poems and worlds. From his earliest registrations of the Jerusalem landscape's stark power to electric renderings of mystical medieval Hebrew hymns; from his kabbalistically inspired recent poems to sensuous versions of masterworks of Muslim Spain; and from his provocative presentation of contemporary poetry from Palestine and Israel to his own dazzling reckonings with politics, beauty, and the double-edged dynamic of influence, Cole offers a ramifying vision of connectedness. In the process, he defies traditional distinctions between new and old, familiar and foreign, translation and original--"as though," in his own words, "living itself were an endless translation.""-- Provided by publisher.
"A selection of Cole's award-winning poetry and translations together with new poems"-- Provided by publisher.

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; criticism and interpretation; Arabic literature; history and criticism.

• Foreword by Joseph Donahue--
• 1 - Eliot's Influence on the Iraqi Free Verse Movement-- I. The Battle Between Tradition and Modernity-- II. The Reception of "The Waste Land"-- III. The Poem of the Century-- IV. Reading "The Waste Land"-- V. Translating "The Waste Land"--
• 2 - Eliot's Children or the Wastelanders-- I. The Quest for National Salvation-- II. Al-Sayyab (1926-1964)-- III. The Golden Bough-From Ritual to Romance-- IV. Adonis / Tammuz--
• 3 - Jabra Ibrahim Jabra-- I. The Clash of Literary Genres-- II. In Defense of Poesy-- III. Jabra and Al-Sayyab--
• 4 - Yusuf Al-Khal-- I. The Launching of Shi'r Magazine-- II. The Literary Climate of the Forties and Fifties-- III. Al-Khal's Translation of "The Waste Land"-- IV. Shi'r Magazine-- V. The Prose Poem--
• 5 - Khalil Hawi-- I. A Sufi Surrealist-- II. Hawi and Eliot-- III. Hawi and the Myth of Tammuz-- IV. Lazarus--
• 6 - Adonis-- I. A Sufi Surrealist-- II. Religion-- III. Tradition-- IV. Modernity and Symbolism-- V. The Phoenix-- VI. Whitman-Eliot-Adonis-- VII. Al-Naffari-- Appendix: "The Waste Land" in Arabic-- Notes-- Index.
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The book sheds new light on the revolutionary influence of Eliot's poetry on the free verse movement in Iraq and Lebanon, especially on the mythical poets: Al-Sayyab, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Yusuf Al-Khal, Khalil Hawi and Adonis known as the Tammuzi Poets. The writer is one of Eliot's best translators who personally knew all five of these modern mythical poets.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780773400740 20160616

Am̲erican literature; history and criticism.

A visit with Grandmother in the Middle East is always special for Yasmin, but this time it is even more so in this picture book about faith and family.On her first night visiting her grandmother, Yasmin is wakened by the muezzin at the nearby mosque calling the faithful to prayer. She watches from her bed as her grandmother prepares to pray. During her stay, Yasmin's grandmother makes her prayer clothes, buys her a prayer rug, and teaches her the five prayers that Muslims perform over the course of a day. When it's time for Yasmin to board a plane and return home, her grandmother gives her a present. When Yasmin opens the present when she gets home, she discovers a prayer clock in the shape of a mosque, with an alarm that sounds like a muezzin calling the faithful to prayer.Maha Addasi's warm and endearing story, richly illustrated by Ned Gannon, is the recipient of an Arab American Book Award, Honor Book. Featuring text both in English and Arabic, this is a perfect title for children learning more about Middle Eastern cultures and language.School Library Journal says: "A beautifully woven tale of grandparent affection and spiritual development."Booklist says: "An affectionate, intergenerational story.".
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781590786116 20180521

Letters written by Gibran to various people, including his publisher Alfred Knopf. Translated into Arabic.