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Chronicles of Majnun Layla and selected poems /
"Chronicles of Majnun Layla and Selected Poems brings together in one volume Haddad's seminal work and a considerable selection of poems from his oeuvre, stretching over forty years. The central poem, Chronicles of Majnun Layla, recasts the seventh-century myth into a contemporary, postmod...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Arabic |
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Syracuse :
Syracuse University Press,
2014.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Middle East literature in translation.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments
- Note on translation
- Introduction.
- Part one. Chronicles of Majnun Layla: Of Qays
- He is no one
- Of Layla
- First lightning
- Not of any place
- Things
- The crystalline sweetness of flesh
- Now you have heard, now you have seen
- The citadel's garden
- You covered me, now expose me
- Love
- The wolf
- The wedding night
- Crown of sacrifices
- The night described
- Acts of raving
- Divine guidance
- Acts of raving
- The sun
- Water mirror
- God will forgive
- All the weeping
- On Hajj Something other than the mount
- Speaking your heart
- The text and the account
- Heart madness
- Madness as mask
- The royal road
- A two-way lantern
- Enticement
- Towards it at every turn
- Love : so many doors
- Herself eroticized
- Kalam ibn Wahsh
- Laughter
- The argument
- The discerning lantern
- Never or he dies
- It is love.
- Part two. Selected poems: In the sun's eye
- Tell us, o Scheherazade
- Alphabet of the Arab twentieth century : Alif
- You are the music, I am the dance
- All of them
- I don't bow down
- With more freedom
- Adventure
- The intimate inferno
- Illumination
- Earth's mantle
- History
- Love feast
- The dream chapter
- Genesis
- A dynasty
- The charmed
- Memory of all that
- The stars' messenger
- The captain
- The waters of meaning
- Untitled
- The citadel
- Catalog of suffering (selections)
- He was told : o Muhammad
- Love
- The hermit's spindle.
- Appendix: Provisions for mere survival
- Explanatory notes.