Summer Reading: New Arab Poetry Translations Online
via Arab Literature (in English): Writes mlynxqualey: Not exactly “beach reading,” but you could peruse these on your phone as you listen to the waves. Portrait of al-Sayyab from http://www.suhailart.com/ Badr Shakir al-Sayyab In Jadaliyya’s summer “culture bouquet,” they feature the Iraqi poet’s “Whorehouse,” trans. Levi Thompson. (You can read the original here.) Sargon Boulus Also from the “culture bouquet” (a great one this season), a poem by the great Boulus trans. Suneela Mubayi “An Attempt to Reach Beirut by Sea” Muhammad al-Mahgut Also in the summer “culture bouquet,” the Syrian poet’s “Roman Amphitheatres,” trans. Ahmad Diab, from the poet’s East of Aden, West of God. Mohammed al-Ajami Qatari poet, serving a 15-year sentence at Doha Central Prison for “inciting the overthrow of the ruling regime” and “criticizing the Emir” in two of his poems, managed to record and send out a poem from prison last month. It’s been translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid. Ahmed Matar The new website “Political Arabic Poetry” promises that, over the course of the next few weeks, they will be releasing a collection of nine English translations of poems originally written in Arabic, featuring works by Amal Dunqul, Ahmed Fuad Negm, Ahmed Matar, Mahmoud Darwish, and Sayyid Qutb. (The last one’s a bit of a curveball, but okay.) The project begins with Matar: Tareq al-Karmy The New Statesman has published two poems by al-Karmy, trans. Liz Lochhead. They can both be found in the new collection of Palestinian poetry, A Bird is Not a Stone. You can find out more about the project on the book’s blog. The Legend of Mythic, Proud Perfection
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