Dusting the Color From Roses: A Billigual Collection of Arabic Poetry

Algosaibi, Ghazi A.

ISBN 10: 1873395019 / ISBN 13: 9781873395011

Published by Saqi Books, 1995

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dusting the Color From Roses: A Billigual Collection of Arabic Poetry
• Publisher: Saqi Books
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1873395019
• ISBN 13: 9781873395011
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

Dusting the Colour from Roses is a bilingual (Arabic/English) collection of poems by one of the Arabian Gulf's major literary figures. Ghazi Algosaibi's themes are universal ­ love, death, the passage of time and the passing of the seasons. The voice in his poems, while unmistakably his own, draws on a wealth of traditions including the classical, the chivalric, the neo-classical and the modernist.

The translation from the Arabic has been revised and reworked by the British poetess Heather Lawton. The Arabic and English versions are printed on facing pages, allowing the reader with some knowledge of Arabic to follow the original text.

About the Author

Ghazi Algosaibi is well known in the Arab world as a writer of both poetry and prose. Something of a Renaissance figure, his career has spanned academia, politics and the arena of diplomacy, as well as the world of letters. He has published over twenty works in Arabic, including poetry, essays, prose meditations and a novel. Dusting the Colour from Roses is his fourth book to be published in English.