Research Catalog

Title

How long have you been with us? : essays on poetry / Khaled Mattawa.

Author

Mattawa, Khaled

Publication

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]

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Details

Description

181 pages; 21 cm

Summary

""As a writer starting out in the early 1990s," Khaled Mattawa begins "Meet the Poet-Stranger," the essay that opens this collection, "I wanted the company of fellow immigrants who worked in the language of their adopted homelands, chiseling away at their exile and making a home for themselves in poetry." Throughout his career, Mattawa's thoughtful and politically astute considerations of what it means to create as a "poet-stranger," particularly for those of Middle Eastern heritage, have been steeped in his personal experience as a Libyan-American writer. The essays included in this volume cover Mattawa's approach toward translating contemporary and classical Arabic poetry, the personal and international politics of poetry, and the difficulty of representing one's own family history in one's own writing. The concluding piece, "Poems and Days (A Reader's Memoir)," presents his deep engagement with the work of other poets during his formative years as a writer"--

Series Statement

Poets on poetry

Uniform Title

Poets on poetry.

Subjects

• English literature > English-speaking countries
• Arabs in literature
• American poetry > 21st century > History and criticism
• Arab Americans in literature
• English literature > Arab authors > History and criticism
• American literature > Arab American authors > History and criticism
• American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Meet the poet-stranger: three stories and their aftermath -- Identity, power and a prayer to repatriation: on writing and translating poetry -- On the poet's presence: thinking back, thinking forth, thinking Darwish and Tagore -- Resisting the lapse into monologue: on the poetics of bilingualism in American poetry -- Ethnic American writing and the challenge of tradition -- Writing Islam in contemporary American poetry: on Mohja Kahf, Daniel Moore and Agha Shahid Ali -- Translation impossible -- Epic temptations: on an unwritten poem -- Four uneasy pieces -- On the road with Adonis -- Skyping with Saadi, channeling Li Po -- Poems and days (A reader's memoir).

Call Number

JFD 17-934

ISBN

• 9780472053292
• 0472053299
• 9780472073290
• 047207329X

LCCN

2016031015

OCLC

949986784

Author

Mattawa, Khaled, author.

Title

How long have you been with us? : essays on poetry / Khaled Mattawa.

Publisher

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Poets on poetry

Poets on poetry.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Research Call Number

JFD 17-934