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Author Najmī, Ḥasan, author.

Title The blueness of the evening : selected poems of Hassan Najmi / translated by Mbarek Sryfi and Eric Sellin
Published Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2018

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Contents Preface; Acknowledgments; I. From A Small Life; Enemies; The Translator; Cogito; Sometimes; Café Ibn Battuta; Point of View; The Warriorâ#x80;#x99;s Turn; The Poet; A Little Woman; The Four Seasons; The Inn; Corrections; The Letters of Death; Clay; The Musician; The Movie Critic; Together . . .; II. From The Bathers; The Desert; III. From Seclusion; Condolences (I); Condolences (II); A Glance; Woman; Weeping; Message in a Bottle; Cradle; Dew; Chill; Scarf; Seagull; A Small Place; Stones; Voice; Dyads; The Blueness of the Evening; N.A.; The Station Square; Dyad; The Empty Chair
IV. Umber WindsUmber Winds; V. From A Hurt like Love; A Tear; The Runawayâ#x80;#x99;s Nostalgia; A Man Contemplating His Life; Voices in the City; The Violins; The Rain in the Poem; Whispers; A Cloud; Sands; A Room in Rome; Love; In the Darkened Room; Escape; The Dead Man; The Poet (II); Borges I; Borges II
Summary This selection of Hassan Najmi's poems, translated by Mbarek Sryfi and Eric Sellin, provides an excellent introduction to the work of one of Morocco's foremost poets and to a school of modern verse emerging in the Arab World. Scenes of late night cityscapes, lonely interiors, awe-inspiring desert wastes, and seaside vistas are found within the exquisitely subtle lyric moods and nuances of Najmi's ars poetica, providing insight into the geographical, political, and linguistic ferment that have made Morocco an exciting hub of creative activity in the twenty-first century
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 08, 2017)
Subject Arabic poetry -- Morocco.
POETRY -- Africa.
POETRY -- General.
Arabic poetry
Morocco
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781610756273
1610756274