Free Download Nāzik Al-Malā'ika, "Listen to the Mourners: The Essential Poems of Nāzik Al-Malā'ika"
English | ISBN: 0268200939 | 2021 | 142 pages | EPUB | 435 KB

This is one of the first book-length English translations of Nāzik Al-Malā'ika's Arabic poetry.
One of the most influential Iraqi poets of the twentieth century, Nāzik Al-Malā'ika pioneered the modern Arabic verse movement when she broke away from the formalistic classical modes of Arabic poetry that had prevailed for more than fifteen centuries. Along with ʻAbdulwahhāb Al-Bayyāti and Badre Shākir Al-Sayyāb, she paved the way for the birth of a new modernist poetic movement in the Arab world.
Until now, very little of Al-Malā'ika's poetry has been translated into English. Listen to the Mourners contains forty of her most significant poems selected from six published volumes, including
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