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Buland Al- aidari and Modern Iraqi Poetry: Selected Poems
0268205302 epub In this brilliant book, Abdulwid Lulua translates and introduces eighty poems from one of the pioneers of modern Arabic poetry, Buland Al-aidari. Buland Al-aidari might fairly be considered the fourth pillar holding up the dome of modern Arabic poetry. Alongside his famous contemporaries Nzik al-Mal'ika, Badre Shkir Al-Sayyb, and Abdulwahhb Al-Bayyti, Al-aidari likewise made significant contributions to the development of twentieth-century Arabic poetry, including the departure from the traditional use of two-hemistich verses in favor of what has been called the Arabic free verse form. A few of Al-aidaris poems have been translated into English separately, but no book-length translation of his poetry has been published until now. In Read more