Title: Arabic Poems
Edited by: Marle Hammond
Published: 2014
Language: English/Arabic
Pages: 288
Rating: 4/5
Summary:
A bilingual collection of Arabic poems from the sixth century to the present.
Review:
This was a wonderful poetry collection and I enjoyed it so much!
I found a lot of the poetry in this to be extremely beautiful, and I must applaud those who managed to translate it. I especially found the poetry about love to be especially gorgeous, and it's easily some of my favorite love poetry I've ever read.
This book contains poetry from pre-Islamic times to modern times. I must admit I didn't enjoy the oldest poetry as much as the modern, but it was interesting to read nonetheless. Also, even though I cannot read Arabic, I really like that the original text is included in this book.
A lot of the poetry I liked most are beautiful but a bit long, so here's one of the shorter ones I really liked called Seeing Herself Beautiful and Nubile by Qasmuna Bint Isma'il;
I would highly recommend this poetry collection if you wish to try some Arabic poetry.
You can get this book at The Book Depository*
You can read more about it on Goodreads
Also, the color of this book is gorgeous...
Edited by: Marle Hammond
Published: 2014
Language: English/Arabic
Pages: 288
Rating: 4/5
Summary:
A bilingual collection of Arabic poems from the sixth century to the present.
Review:
This was a wonderful poetry collection and I enjoyed it so much!
I found a lot of the poetry in this to be extremely beautiful, and I must applaud those who managed to translate it. I especially found the poetry about love to be especially gorgeous, and it's easily some of my favorite love poetry I've ever read.
This book contains poetry from pre-Islamic times to modern times. I must admit I didn't enjoy the oldest poetry as much as the modern, but it was interesting to read nonetheless. Also, even though I cannot read Arabic, I really like that the original text is included in this book.
A lot of the poetry I liked most are beautiful but a bit long, so here's one of the shorter ones I really liked called Seeing Herself Beautiful and Nubile by Qasmuna Bint Isma'il;
I see an orchard
Where the time has come
For harvesting
But I do not see
A gardener reaching out a hand
Toward its fruits
Youth goes, vanishing; I wait alone
For somebody I do not wish to name
p. 131, translated by C. Middleton and L. Garza-Falcón
You can get this book at The Book Depository*
You can read more about it on Goodreads
Also, the color of this book is gorgeous...
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