Research Catalog

Title

Miracle maker : selected poems of Fadhil Al-Azzawi / translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa.

Author

ʻAzzāwī, Fāḍil

Publication

Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, 2003.

Supplementary Content

Publisher description

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Details

Additional Authors

Mattawa, Khaled

Description

143 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

The Lannan translations selection series

Uniform Title

• Poems. Selections. English
• Lannan translations selection series.

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

ʻAzzāwī, Fāḍil > Translations into English

Contents

Introduction: The Making of a Miracle Maker -- The Clown and the Dancer -- Romeo in Old Age -- Prisoner No. 907 -- The Buddhist's Masks -- Mr. Edouard Luqa's Dilemma -- A Bell -- The Teachings of F. Al-Azzawi -- Song of the Dead Arab -- The Murdered -- The Pedestrian -- Sometimes We are Born -- The Opening -- The Valley of the Beasts -- Write Your Name on Every Pain -- Man Is Nothing but a Woodsman in the Forest -- Abdullah Begs from the Sea -- The Key -- The Lover -- In the Village of Children -- A Donkey at a Mill -- An Appointment in Samarra -- The Room -- In Prison -- Signs -- The Dragon's Mountain -- The Life and Times of the Dragon -- So That We Do Not Forget -- Happiness -- Epilogue -- Defiance -- The Rope -- Brotherhood -- Cockroach -- The Three Kings -- The Last Iraq -- Memory -- In the Court of Honor -- Vision on a Bus -- A Man in Memory -- Song of Myself -- Good Morning, God -- The Prodigal Son Returns -- No Matter How Far -- God and the Devil -- Elegy for the Living -- A Movie in a Train Station -- From an Open Window unto a Dark Street -- Toasts -- Nothing Happens in My Dreams Anymore -- The Book of Lies -- Night Soldiers -- The Russian Elegy -- On the Griffon Farm -- The Magi in Our House -- The IF Poem -- The Widow on Her Balcony -- Abraham in the Garden of Fire -- The Lion and the Apostle -- Newton's Apple -- Noah After the Flood -- On Half-Deserted Streets with Prufrock -- The Surprise -- Lenin Platz in Berlin -- Toasting Betrayed Revolutions -- Before the Sky Had a Name -- Miracle Maker -- Feast in Candlelight.

ISBN

• 1929918453 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1929918445 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2003055872

OCLC

• ocm52948604
• SCSB-4871261

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries