Listen to the Mourners

This is one of the first book-length English translations of Nazik Al-Mala'ika's Arabic poetry.One of the most influential Iraqi poets of the twentieth century, Nazik Al-Mala'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 E Abdulwahhab Al-Bayyati and Badre Shakir...