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Spectres of Exile and Other Poems
Contributor(s): Al-Qurashi, Hasan Abdallah (Author)

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ISBN: 1873395051     ISBN-13: 9781873395059
Publisher: Saqi Books
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2001
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Annotation: Spectres of Exile is a bilingual edition of poems by one of the Arab Gulf region's most prominent poets. Hasan Abdallah al-Qurashi comes from the Hijaz, the birthplace of Arabic poetry, and fellow poets have linked him to the great Hijazi poets of the pre-Islamic period and the seventh and eighth centuries AD.
Al-Qurashi writes love poems in which the pain and difficulty of love are invariably portrayed through imagery relating to the natural hazards of the desert and the nomadic way of life, in keeping with the conventions of his literary forebears.
He also writes about the fate of a poet who is the spokesman for his people and an indivisible part of them, but at the same time an outcast, an exile and a marginal figure. He evokes the beauty of the country to whose past and future he feels bound, but condemns the perversion of its supposedly cherished values and aspirations.

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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Middle Eastern
- Poetry | Anthologies (multiple Authors)
- Language Arts & Disciplines
Dewey: 892.716
LCCN: 92146403
Physical Information: 119 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Middle East
 
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A bilingual book of poems written by Hasan Abdallah al-Qurashi. He aims to evoke the beauty of the country to whose past and future he feels bound, condemning the perversion of its values and aspirations.
 
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