Fadhil Al-Azzawi: Miracle Maker: The Selected Poems of Fadhil Al-Azzawi
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- ISBN: 9781929918454
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This collection features poems from Al-Azzawi s 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 Janabi s 'Questions' and 'Their Retinue' and Saddi Youssef s 'Without an Alphabet, Without a Face. ''