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Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry
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Description for Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry
Paperback. Gathers together 160 poems from 39 contemporary Arab American poets. This book engages themes such as culture, politics, loss, art and language. It challenges us to reconsider what it means to be American. It includes an introduction about the state of Arab American poetry, short biographies of the poets and a list of further readings. Editor(s): Charara, Hayan. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 535.
At no other time in American history has our imagination been so engrossed with the Arab experience. An indispensable and historic volume, Inclined to Speak gathers together poems, from the most important contemporary Arab American poets, that shape and alter our understanding of this experience. These poems also challenge us to reconsider what it means to be American. Impressive in its scope, this book provides readers with an astonishing array of poetic sensibilities, touching on every aspect of the human condition. Whether about culture, politics, loss, art, or language itself, the poems here engage these themes with originality, dignity, and ... Read more
At no other time in American history has our imagination been so engrossed with the Arab experience. An indispensable and historic volume, Inclined to Speak gathers together poems, from the most important contemporary Arab American poets, that shape and alter our understanding of this experience. These poems also challenge us to reconsider what it means to be American. Impressive in its scope, this book provides readers with an astonishing array of poetic sensibilities, touching on every aspect of the human condition. Whether about culture, politics, loss, art, or language itself, the poems here engage these themes with originality, dignity, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557288677
SKU
V9781557288677
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99-14
About
Hayan Charara was a visiting professor of poetry writing at the University of Texas at Austin in 2005. Before that he taught in New York City. He is the author of two collections of poetry, The Sadness of Others and The Alchemist's Diary. Born in Detroit, Michigan, to immigrant parents, he currently lives in Texas. He is also a woodworker. ... Read more
Reviews for Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry
Inclined to Speak is one of the most fruitfully diverse anthologies I have read in years, as its wealth of origins might lead one to expect. Here are poets in the high tradition of international Modernism, inheritors of Neruda, Hikmet, Celan, Ritsos and Darwish, who also deploy American poetry's plural possibilities, drawing from the same sources as Stevens, Oppen, Rukeyser, ... Read more