Beschreibung:
The first study of Iraqi female poet, Nazik al-Mala'ika, one of the most important Arab poets of the twentieth century
Introduction
I. The Woman in Love with Night
Revolt Against the Sun
Elegy for a Drowned Man
The Woman in Love with Night
To John Keats
Words Written on a Grave
II. From Splinters and Ash
The Train Passed By
Elegy for an Unimportant Day
At the End of the Stairs
Chasm Song
To my Dearly Departed Aunt
Cholera
A Funeral for Happiness
Accusations
III. From At the Bottom of the Wave
To a Girl Sleeping in the Street
Elegy for a Woman of No Importance
Three Elegies for my Mother
The Sacrifice of a Dancer
When I Killed my Love
Words
Journey
An Invitation to Life
IV. From Moontree
The Moon Tree
A Greeting to the Iraqi Republic
Song for the Arab Ruins
A Song for the Moon
Three Communist Songs
V. From Of Prayer and Revolution
Sleeping Beauty
A Trilogy at a Time of Parting Ways
Headlines and Notices in the Arab Newspapers
Of Prayer and Revolution
On Peace and Justice