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So what : new & selected poems (with a story), 1971-2005

Title
So what : new & selected poems (with a story), 1971-2005 / Taha Muhammad Ali ; translated by Peter Cole, Yahya Hijazi, Gabriel Levin.
Author
ʻAlī, Ṭāhā Muḥammad.
Publication
Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, [2006], ©2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Cole, Peter, 1957-
  • Hijazi, Yahya.
  • Levin, Gabriel, 1948-
Description
xxv, 197 pages; 23 cm
Uniform Title
Poems. Selections. English
Alternative Title
Poems.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Language (note)
  • Poems in Arabic with English translations.
Contents
On Taha Muhammad Ali -- Abd el-Hadi fights a superpower -- Warning -- Postoperative complications following the extraction of memory -- Thrombosis in the veins of petroleum -- The fourth Qasida -- Exodus -- Crack in the skull -- Ambergris -- The evening wine of aged sorrow -- Fooling the killers -- There was no farewell -- Three Qasidas -- Never mind -- Maybe -- The falcon -- Sabha's rope -- The bell at forty : the destruction of a village -- Empty words -- Twigs -- The height of love -- Meeting at an airport -- Abd el-Hadi the fool -- This is the steel mihrab about to fall and that's my mother, before she ceased to mourn -- Balance -- Fellah -- Sahbr and Zeynab ascend -- Michelle -- No, Papa, please! -- Where -- The place itself, or I hope you can't digest it -- Between sleep and waking -- Nothing more -- The kid goats of Jamil -- Tea and sleep -- So what (a story).
ISBN
1556592450 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2006011905
  • 9781556592454
OCLC
  • OCM65978667
  • SCSB-5273397
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries