Arabian Love Poems
Nizar Kabbani was a poet of great simplicity - direct, spontaneous, musical, using the language of everyday life. He was a ceaseless campaigner for women's rights, and his verses praise the beauty of the female body, and of love. He was an Arab nationalist, yet he criticized Arab dictators and the lack of freedom in the Arab world. Frangieh and Brown's elegant translations are accompanied by the striking Arabic texts of the poems, penned by Kabbani especially for this collection.
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Arabian Love Poems
Nizar Kabbani was a poet of great simplicity - direct, spontaneous, musical, using the language of everyday life. He was a ceaseless campaigner for women's rights, and his verses praise the beauty of the female body, and of love. He was an Arab nationalist, yet he criticized Arab dictators and the lack of freedom in the Arab world. Frangieh and Brown's elegant translations are accompanied by the striking Arabic texts of the poems, penned by Kabbani especially for this collection.
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Nizar Kabbani was a poet of great simplicity - direct, spontaneous, musical, using the language of everyday life. He was a ceaseless campaigner for women's rights, and his verses praise the beauty of the female body, and of love. He was an Arab nationalist, yet he criticized Arab dictators and the lack of freedom in the Arab world. Frangieh and Brown's elegant translations are accompanied by the striking Arabic texts of the poems, penned by Kabbani especially for this collection.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780894108815
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 11/28/1998
Series: Three Continents Series
Edition description: Revised
Pages: 225
Product dimensions: 6.07(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.55(d)
Language: Arabic

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction1
Oh green bird19
My lover asks me20
When I fell in love21
You still ask me about the day of my birth22
Oh, my love23
All words24
I hadn't told them about you25
I hate to love like other people26
Your love27
From the moment you loved me28
When I am in love (no. 1)29
When I am in love (no. 2)30
I love you when you cry31
I don't know my birthday32
Your eyes are like a rainy night33
I wrote the name of the one I loved34
Oh traveler35
Our love36
Don't worry37
When I travel into your eyes38
Like a fish39
I am the prophet of love40
Undress yourself41
I have changed so much42
Because my love for you43
1I want to write different words for you47
2That March morning when you came walking toward me53
3When I told you59
4When God bestowed women on men65
5I was never a king71
6Why do you erase history73
7I taught the children of the world75
8Pure like a necklace of jasmine77
9I love you79
10Your love took me81
11I wear you83
12My kingdom of little things (excerpt)87
13Out of my desire89
14The two years95
17When I am with you97
18I'm not a teacher99
25My letters to you101
28In the summer102
33Every time I kiss you103
35My love runs to you104
37Every man105
38Stay out of my sight106
39When rain fell on both of us107
40I curl up108
41I hope one day109
43When you visit me110
47Every time you traveled111
48Did you ever think113
49The day I met you114
50Close all my books115
51Yesterday I thought116
52Please117
55Why do you ask me to write you119
57Pull out the dagger buried in my side121
59From the airplane (excerpt)123
60Before I entered the cities of your mouth (excerpt)125
61It is all over (excerpt)127
64What would your femininity say about me (excerpt)129
65When you accompany me131
69When you danced with me that night133
71When you find a man135
78I knew137
80Your departure is not a tragedy138
81While Rome burned, you burned139
83Do you have a solution141
86Drink your coffee145
87I am accused of being like Shahrayar149
88Why do you telephone, my lady157
91You wear hippie clothes163
99Be assured, my lady167
100This is my last letter171
About Sea Love179
I Learn by Reading Your Body181
To My Love on New Year's Eve191
Will You Allow Me to Take a Holiday?193
Time Travels with You When You Leave195
Love During House Arrest199
Women, The Knowledge of God209
I Will Tell You: I Love You215
The Talk of Her Hands218
I Am Afraid219
Who Is the Prettiest?221
I Conquer the Universe with Words223
About the Book225
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