A Map of Signs and Scents – New and Selected Poems, 1979–2014

Featuring poems from earlier collections of Amjad Nasser’s work and many newer uncollected poems never made available in English, A Map of Signs and Scents introduces the work of an important Arabic poet to a broader contemporary Anglophone readership. This special annotation edition helps readers view the multifaceted contexts within which Nasser has created his award-winning poems.

AMJAD NASSER was a leading Jordanian poet, essayist, and travel memoirist. One of the pioneers of the Arabic prose poem, he cofounded a number of Arabic publications. He died in 2019. 

FADY JOUDAH is a poet, translator, and practicing physician of internal medicine. His first poetry collection, The Earth in the Attic, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 2007.

KHALED MATTAWA is an associate professor of English and creative writing at the University of Michigan. He has authored four books of poetry.