Research Catalog

Title

A map of signs and scents : new and selected poems, 1979-2014 / Amjad Nasser ; translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah and Khaled Mattawa.

Author

Nāṣir, Amjad

Publication

• Evanston, Illinois : Curbstone Books/Northwestern University Press, 2016.
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

• Joudah, Fady, 1971-
• Mattawa, Khaled

Description

xvii, 161 pages; 22 cm

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections. English

Alternative Title

Poems.

Note

• Translated from the Arabic.

Contents

From Praise for another cafe, 1979 -- Gates to the sky, but they are narrow -- From Climbing the mountain since Gilead, 1981 -- Song -- Grandfather -- Flower -- Shoes -- The bleating of copper -- From Shepherds of solitude, 1986 -- Exile -- Drums -- Bent branches -- Loneliness -- Fever -- Shade plants -- Planets for Asia -- Shepherds of solitude -- From The strangers arrive, 1990 -- Chance -- The strangers arrive -- The impending hour -- Lines to Joseph -- The lion -- From Joy to all who see you, 1994 -- Invocation for entering the house -- The scent reminds -- A rose of black lace -- Invocation -- The sun flung its golden incisors at me -- The lover's ascent -- From Ascent of breath, 1997 -- A dusk foretold -- Ascent of breath -- From Whenever he saw a sign, 1998 -- Meritocracy -- Haiku breaths -- A mark -- Alexander's gold -- Kismet -- Appearance -- Father's sleep -- The edges of day -- From Life like a broken narrative, 2004 -- The house after her death -- Old radio -- Bridges -- Souvenir -- The ring from Al-Qayrawan -- Suhrawardi's handkerchief -- A postponed poem for New York -- Dog's tail -- 03-03-03 -- Something like anger, like betrayal -- Clay tablets -- Preparing for flight -- The phases of the moon in London -- Mimicking Mark Antony -- An ordinary conversation about cancer -- Neighbors -- The stars of London -- Cavafy's mask -- New uncollected poems, 2008-2014 -- Petra: the concealed rose -- If you're passing through Rome -- Don't do as Romans do -- On the way to you -- By chance as well -- Light.

Call Number

JFD 16-5753

ISBN

• 9780810133655
• 0810133652

LCCN

2016017484

OCLC

946725918

Author

Nāṣir, Amjad, author.

Title

A map of signs and scents : new and selected poems, 1979-2014 / Amjad Nasser ; translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah and Khaled Mattawa.

Publisher

Evanston, Illinois : Curbstone Books/Northwestern University Press, 2016.

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Joudah, Fady, 1971- translator.

Mattawa, Khaled, translator.

Research Call Number

JFD 16-5753