Lighthouse for the Drowning
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First published in Arabic in 1996, exactly 20 years ago, Lighthouse for the Drowning was met with high acclaim, praised for its unique poetic voice and its strong relationship and dialogue with the Arabic poetic tradition.
Fakhreddine is one of the major Lebanese names in Modern Arabic Poetry, and is considered one of the second generation poets of the modernist movement in the Arab world. His major literary accomplishment is the establishment of a new poetic voice to bridge foreign, Modernist values with Classic Arabic tradition.
Fakhreddine's PhD dissertation was supervised by Adonis, a major Arab poet, and one of the first theorizers of the Arab modernist movement. Fakhreddine is one of the modern Arab poets who constantly evokes the classical tradition of Arabic poetry and tries to remain in dialogue with it.
Arabic poetry, throughout history and to this day, is the brightest space in Arab life and culture, both in mainstream culture and in margins. Renowned Arab poets have always been symbols for liberation, open-mindedness, and progress, standing against stagnation, fanaticism, and bigotry. Arabic poetry has always been the source of modernization and renewal in Arab culture. With it, language is renewed, as well as rhetoric, thought, and cultural values.
Jawdat Fakhreddine was born in 1953 in a small village in southern Lebanon. A professor of Arabic literature at the Lebanese University in Beirut, he is one of the major Lebanese names in Modern Arabic Poetry, and is considered one of the second generation poets of the modernist movement in the Arab world. He earned an MA in Physics and taught at the high school level for more than 10 years. During this time he published a number of poetry collections and was encouraged by Adonis to work on a PhD in Arabic literature. Fakhreddine intermittently publishes articles and new poems in al-Hayat newspaper, which is an Arab newspaper published in London and distributed worldwide, and in as-Safir, one of the two major Lebanese Newspapers. He writes a weekly article in al-Khaleej newspaper, a widely distributed gulf daily newspaper. He currently lives in Beirut, Lebanon. Huda Fakhreddine is Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work focuses on modernist movements and trends in Arabic poetry and their relationship to the Arabic literary tradition. She is the author of Metapoesis in the Arabic Tradition (Brill, 2015), a study of the modernist poetry of the twentieth century Free Verse movement and the Abbasid muh?dath movement, as periods of literary crisis and metapoetic reflection. She holds an MA in English Literature from the American University of Beirut and a PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Indiana University, Bloomington. Jayson Iwen is a poet and cross-genre writer, the author of Six Trips in Two Directions (2006), which won the Emergency Press International Book Award; A Momentary Jokebook (2008), which won the Cleveland State University Ruthanne Wiley Memorial Novella Award; and the anti-novel Gnarly Wounds (2013). Recently published poems of his can be found in The &Now Awards 3: The Best Innovative Writing, Painted Bride Quarterly, and Eureka Literary Magazine. He currently lives in Duluth, Minnesota, and is Associate Professor of Writing at The University of WisconsinSuperior. He met both Huda and Jawdat Fakhreddine when he lived in Lebanon, where, amongst other things, he was Assistant Professor of English Literature at The American University of Beirut and organizer of the first post-war, open mic reading series in Lebanon.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Three Profiles of Death
Glow
September
Preparation
Foxes
Seas
Do I Take Refuge in Myself
For Yemen
An Evening in Old Sanaa
Elevation
How Long This Day of Mine
There in the Winter
A Lighthouse for the Drowning
Forty
Grass
Distraction
Heavy Essence
Day
Night
Light Pulse
Land
Stars
Bird
My Evening There
The Slanted Balcony
The Sky That Denied Me
Winter’s Words
Birds of Regret
Smoke
Dying Directions
| Erscheinungsdatum | 12.07.2017 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Lannan Translations Selection Series |
| Übersetzer | Jayson Iwen, Huda Fakhreddine |
| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Rochester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 228 mm |
| Gewicht | 198 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Anthologien |
| Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-942683-39-1 / 1942683391 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-942683-39-1 / 9781942683391 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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