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Miracle Maker: The Selected Poems of Fadhil Al-Azzawi
By (Author) Fadhil Al-Azzawi
Translated by Khaled Mattawa
BOA Editions, Limited
BOA Editions, Limited
15th December 2003
United States
General
Non Fiction
Middle Eastern history
Philosophy of mind
Poetry / Poems
892.716
Paperback
130
Width 152mm, Height 228mm, Spine 7mm
198g
This collection features poems from Al-Azzawis six previous Arabic poetry collections and many new poems. Springing from classical Arabic poetry, his poems speak to political exile, -cultural marginalization, and Middle Eastern and Western histories and mythologies. Al-Azzawi employs -humor, melancholy and tenderness to celebrate new worlds of possibility.
Fadhil Al-Azzawi was born in 1940 in Kirkuk, Iraq. By the time he was -fifteen, he was publishing poems in the leading Arab literary magazines in Beirut and Baghdad. Al-Azzawi -currently lives in London.
Khaled Mattawa (Translator) is the author of a -collection of poetry, Ismailia Eclipse, and the translator of two books of contemporary Arabic poetry, Hatif Janabis Questions and Their Retinue and Saddi Youssefs Without an Alphabet, Without a Face.