Nabati poetry of the United Arab Emirates by Clive Holes and translated by Said Salman Abu Athera

This is poetry from United Arab Emirates.

Nabati poetry of the United Arab Emirates by Clive Holes translated by Said Salman Abu Athera is published by Ithaca Press. This is a Book originally written in Arabic. This was published in 2011.0 and has the ISBN of 9.78086372378E12.

Nabati poetry of the United Arab Emirates, by Clive Holes, is a Arabic poetry collection from United Arab Emirates, translated by Said Salman Abu Athera, published by Ithaca Press in 2011. It is a volume focused on Nabati poetry, valuable because it preserves a vernacular tradition of desert speech, praise, memory, and social address. The useful first posture is patience, not mastery. A poem can move before it explains itself, and this book seems best met through image, rhythm, and the emotional pressure of its address. For a translated poetry shelf, that kind of encounter is the whole point: another language making a new shape inside English.

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