Baghdad : The City in Verse.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Roger Allen -- Preface -- Translator's Note -- Introduction -- Muti' ibn Iyas -- [Stars Whirling in the Dark] -- [Raindrops of Dust] -- 'Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak [The Pious Ascetic in Baghdad] -- Anon. [Paradise Lost] -- Anon. [House of Calamity] -- Anon. [Men's Souls Are Sick] -- Anon. [I Am Leaving] -- Anon. [Mean as They Are] -- Anon. [Ornamented Rhetoric and Lies] -- Anon. [Comparison] -- Anon. [Never Again] -- al-'Abbas ibn al-Ahnaf -- [Oh Sun of Baghdad!] -- [From Harun al-Rashid's Mouth] -- [The Eye's Greatest Delight] -- Harun al-Rashid [I Will Not Forgive Myself] -- Shamsa (eigth century) [Separation] -- Anon. [I Weep Blood] -- Anon. [Compulsory Pilgrimage] -- Mansur al-Namari [Breeze] -- Ashja' al-Sulami [Palaces] -- Abu Nuwas (al-Hasan ibn Hani al-Hakami) -- [Pilgrimage] -- [Ships] -- [April Morning] -- 'Inan (eigth century) [Plowing] -- 'Amr ibn 'Abd al-Malik al-Warraq (?-815) -- [An Evil Eye] -- [Disgrace] -- Tahir ibn al-Husayn al-Khuza'i [Your Night, Oh Baghdad] -- 'Ali ibn Jabala al-Ansari (known as al-'Akawwak) [Exile] -- Ishaq al-Khuraymi (?-829) [Elegy] -- Ishaq al-Mawsili [Weeping] -- Al-Husayn ibn al-Dahhak (778-870) -- [Only Sorrow] -- [Their Veils Were Torn] -- 'Abd Allah ibn Tahir (798-844) [The Wailing Pigeon] -- 'Umara ibn 'Aqil (798-853) -- [Dung] -- [Tranquil Abode] -- [Nothing Is Like Baghdad] -- 'Ali ibn al-Jahm -- [Does' Eyes] -- [At al-Karkh's Gate] -- [Ceaseless Rain] -- 'Abd Allah ibn Muhammad al-Bafi [Communion] -- Ibn Dust [Tuesday] -- Abu Muhammad al-Hasan ibn Ahmad al-Brujardi [Tuesday Is for Plea sure] -- al-Walid ibn 'Ubayd Allah al-Buhturi [Desire between Ribs] -- Ibn al-Rumi -- [Tuesday Is Not Only Tuesday] -- [Imagination] -- [Wahid, the Singer] -- [Red-Dyed Finger] -- Adam ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz al-Umawi [Deprived of Sleep].

Abu al-'Aliya [The Hand of Generosity Is Crippled] -- 'Ali ibn Abi Hashim [Builders Build for Ruins] -- 'Abd Allah ibn al-Mu'tazz -- [The Traces of Her Bite] -- [Squeezed by an Old Woman] -- [Thick Smoke] -- [Waistbands] -- [White Roses] -- [Full of Blood] -- Muhammad ibn Dawud al-Isfahani [Pain of Skinning] -- 'Ubayd Allah ibn 'Abd Allah ibn Tahir [Could a Lover Leave?] -- 'Ali ibn al-Husayn al-Wasiti [Temple for the Hearts] -- al-Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj -- [Tell the Gazelle] -- [Ordained by Christ] -- [I Am Whom I Love] -- [States] -- Abu 'Abd Allah Ibrahim ibn Muhammad Nift awayhi [Perpetual Rain] -- Anon. [Only Death] -- Anon. [The Breast Beater] -- Ibn al-Tammar al-Wasiti [Golden Bridge] -- 'Ali ibn Muhammad al-Tanukhi [Moon and River] -- Mansur ibn Kayaghlagh [Moon] -- Abu Ishaq al-Sabi [Basra and Baghdad] -- Abu al-Hasan 'Ali ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz al-Jurjani -- [Garments of Mourning] -- [Downpour of Tears] -- al-Sharif al-Radi [Camels' Saliva] -- al-Tahir ibn al-Muzaff ar ibn Tahir al-Khazin [Sweeter than Wine] -- 'Ali ibn al-Faraj al-Shafi 'i [Elephants on Mercury] -- Muhammad ibn 'Abd Allah al-Salami [Busy Square] -- Ma'dan al-Taghlibi [Promised Land] -- Abu Sa'd Muhmmad ibn 'Ali ibn Khalafal-Nayramani [I Am Your Ransom] -- 'Ali ibn Zurayq Abu al-Hasan al-Baghdadi -- [Moon over Baghdad] -- [Baghdad's People] -- Abu Muhammad 'Abd al-Wahhab al-Maliki -- [Baghdad's Air] -- [A Qur'an in an Unbeliever's House] -- [Like a Friend] -- al-Sharif al-Murtada [Gazelle] -- Abu al-'Ala' al-Ma'arri -- [Love] -- [Farewell] -- [Sadness] -- [Deserted Beloved] -- [Oh Treasurer!] -- Abu al-Ma'ali [Bearded Boy] -- Abu al-Fadl ibn Muhammad al-Khazin al-Katib -- ['Antar and 'Abla] -- [No Nobleman in the Valley] -- Usama ibn Munqidh [Scales of Justice] -- Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Shumay'a al-Baghdadi [The "How Are You?" People] -- Muhyi al-Din ibn al-'Arabi.

[Melancholic Dove] -- [The Most Beloved City] -- Majd al-Din Husayn ibn al-Dawami [Earthquake] -- al-Majd al-Nashabi [Turning a Child's Hair White] -- Taqi al-Din ibn Abi al-Yusr [Burned to Ashes] -- Sa'di Shirazi [A Bird in a Falcon's Grip] -- Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn 'Abd Allah al-Kufi [Kings and Slaves] -- Shams al-Din Mahmud ibn Ahmad al-Hashimial-Hanafi -- [Stars to Be Followed] -- [Vow of Fidelity] -- Abu al-Khayr 'Abd al-Rahman Zayn al-Dinal-Suwaydi [Tears and Weeping] -- 'Abd al-Ghani al-Jamil -- [Complaint] -- [Inner Storm] -- [Once Glory Nested Here] -- Shihab al-Din Abu al-Th ana' Mahmud al-Alusi [Longing and Craving] -- 'Abd al-Ghaff ar al-Akhras al-Mawsili [Peace Be with Baghdad] -- Radi al-Qazwini [Baghdad and Tibriz] -- 'Abd al-Hamid al-Shawi [I Remember Baghdad] -- Ahmad al-Shawi -- [Memory] -- [Leaders] -- Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi -- [Baghdad Days] -- [Behind Bars] -- [Migration] -- Ahmad Shawqi [Baghdad and Rome] -- Hafiz Ibrahim [Tenderness and Gentleness] -- Ma'ruf al-Rusafi -- [The Bridge] -- [The Flood] -- Oh Lover of the Orient! -- Iliyya Abu Madi When Fate Came Knocking -- Anwar Sha'ul -- [Happy in Baghdad] -- [Love of the Arabs] -- Murad Michael Oh My Fatherland! (Excerpts) -- Mir Basri [Oh Friends of Life!] -- Mishil Haddad The Books -- Nizar Qabbani -- A Baghdadi Song -- Glory to the Long Plaits -- Nazik al-Mala'ika The Passionate River -- Ibrahim Ovadia A Guest in Tehran -- 'Ali Sidqi 'Abd al-Qadir Baghdad and the Black Eyes -- Badr Shakir al-Sayyab -- Death the Fox -- Brothel -- Because I Am a Stranger -- Buland al-Haydari -- On the Way of Exile from Baghdad -- The City That Was Lost because of Her Silence -- Apology -- 'Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayyati -- A Sigh in Baghdad -- The City -- An Elegy to an Unborn City -- Words on al-Sayyab's Tomb -- A Profile of a City -- Al-'Abbas ibn al-Ahnaf: Impossible Love.

Shadhil Taqa And When We Took Over Her -- Adonis -- Elegy for al-Hallaj -- Poetry Presses Her Lips to Baghdad's Breast (Baghdad 1969) -- Salute to Baghdad -- [Time Crushes into Baghdad's Body] -- Muhammad Jamil Shalash Baghdad and Dawn -- Salah 'Abd al-Sabur The Tatars Have Attacked -- Sa'di Yusuf -- The New Baghdad -- Solitude -- Baghdad -- The Spoliation -- Ahmad 'Abd al-Mu'ti Hijazi A Poem for Baghdad -- Sadiq al-Sa'igh This Is Baghdad . . . (Excerpts) -- Samih al-Qasim Baghdad . . . (Excerpts) -- Fadil al-'Azzawi -- Mr. Edward Luka's Profession -- In Baghdad's Night -- The Ten New Commandments -- Forgotten Maps -- Sami Mahdi Ruins -- May Muzaffar The City -- Mahmud Darwish Iraq's Night Is Long -- Su'ad al-Sabah -- Hulagu -- Below Zero -- Sharif al-Rubay'i Harun al-Rashid -- Sargon Boulus -- In the Garden of Sa'di Shirazi (When He Was in Prison) -- Hulagu Praises Himself -- There -- Hangman -- I Have Come to You from There -- Hulagu (New Series) -- An Elegy for al-Sindibad Cinema -- Abdul Kader El Janabi -- One Day We Will Have a History -- The Immigrants of the Interior -- What a Moment Is That -- Bildung -- In Baghdad, Where My Past Generation Would Be -- Faruq Juwayda Baghdad, Don't Be in Pain! (Excerpts) -- 'Ali Ja'far al-'Allaq Sketches in the Notebooks of Ibn Zurayqal-Baghdadi -- 'Abd al-Rahman Touhmazi What Do You Want? -- Bushra al-Bustani A Sorrowful Melody -- Ronny Someck -- Baghdad, February 1991 -- The Shaving Razor That Cut the Meta phor of Poetry -- A Personal Note on the Margin of a Renewal Form for an Iraqi Passport -- Wafa' 'Abd al-Razzaq The River -- Ahlam Mustaghanimi [Baghdad's Date Palms Apologize to You] -- Ibrahim Zaydan and Qays Majid al-Mawla A Joint Poem on the Live Half and the Dead Half -- 'Abid 'Ali al-Rammahi Baghdad, Sing! -- Sinan Antoon -- A Letter to al-Mutanabbi (Street) -- The Milky Way -- Illumination -- Wars.

Dalya Riyad -- The Myth of the Tigris and Euphrates -- Roadmap -- Manal al-Shaykh Baghdad -- Afterword by Abdul Kader El Janabi -- References -- Index of Poets -- Index of Titles.

Baghdad: The City in Verse captures the essence of life lived in one of the world's enduring metropolises. This unusual anthology offers original translations of 170 Arabic poems from Bedouin, Muslim, Christian, Kurdish, and Jewish poets--most for the first time in English--from Baghdad's founding in the eighth century to the present day.

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