{"product_id":"listen-to-the-mourners-the-essential-poems-of-nzik-al-malika","title":"Listen to the Mourners","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is one of the first book-length English translations of Nāzik Al-Malā'ika's Arabic poetry.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOne of the most influential Iraqi poets of the twentieth century, Nāzik Al-Malā'ika pioneered the modern Arabic verse movement when she broke away from the formalistic classical modes of Arabic poetry that had prevailed for more than fifteen centuries. Along with ʻAbdulwahhāb Al-Bayyāti and Badre Shākir Al-Sayyāb, she paved the way for the birth of a new modernist poetic movement in the Arab world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUntil now, very little of Al-Malā'ika's poetry has been translated into English. \u003ci\u003eListen to the Mourners\u003c\/i\u003e contains forty of her most significant poems selected from six published volumes, including \u003ci\u003eLife Tragedy and a Song for Man\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Woman in Love with the Night\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSparks and Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wave's Nadir\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Moon Tree\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Sea Alters Its Colours\u003c\/i\u003e. These poems show the beginning of her development from the late romantic orientation in Arabic poetry toward a more psychological approach. Her poetic form shows a significant liberation from the traditional two-hemistich line in traditional Arabic poetry, which adheres to the traditional Arabic measures of prosody and rhyme. 'Abdulwāḥid Lu'lu'a's introduction functions as a critical analysis of the liberated verse movement of the era and situates the poet among her Arab and Western counterparts. This accessible, beautifully rendered, and long overdue translation fills a gap in modern Arabic poetry in translation and will interest students and scholars of Iraqi literature, Middle East studies, women's studies, and comparative literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Notre Dame Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54009601425752,"sku":null,"price":26.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780268200947.jpg?v=1777697139","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/listen-to-the-mourners-the-essential-poems-of-nzik-al-malika","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}