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Map of Signs and Scents
Amjad Nasser
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Description for Map of Signs and Scents
Paperback. Translator(s): Joudah, Fady; Mattawa, Khaled. Series: Curbstone. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 2CSR; 3JJP; 3JM; DSBH5; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 217 x 15. Weight in Grams: 260.
A Map of Signs and Scents is a collection of sixty poems by an acclaimed poet whose life and work span Middle Eastern and Western worlds, centuries past and the vivid present, the sweep of history and the intimacy of love. Born in Jordan in 1955, Amjad Nasser has lived and worked in Beirut, Cyprus, and London. His work reflects a nuanced view of the currents of history along which individual lives play out, putting him in conversation with such poets as C. P. Cavafy, Octavio Paz, and Derek Walcott. And yet, within his peripatetic life, Nasser has produced ... Read more
A Map of Signs and Scents is a collection of sixty poems by an acclaimed poet whose life and work span Middle Eastern and Western worlds, centuries past and the vivid present, the sweep of history and the intimacy of love. Born in Jordan in 1955, Amjad Nasser has lived and worked in Beirut, Cyprus, and London. His work reflects a nuanced view of the currents of history along which individual lives play out, putting him in conversation with such poets as C. P. Cavafy, Octavio Paz, and Derek Walcott. And yet, within his peripatetic life, Nasser has produced ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Series
Curbstone
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810133655
SKU
V9780810133655
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About Amjad Nasser
Amjad Nasser is a leading Jordanian poet, essaysist, and travel memoirist. He has cofounded a number of Arabic publications. Fady Joudah is a poet, a translator, and a practicing physician of internal medicine. His first poetry collection, The Earth in the Attic, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 2007. Khaled Mattawa ... Read more
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