hii words cannot describe how much i adore your blog!! i was wondering if you had any favorite arab poets whose works deeply moved you/whom you’d like to suggest? i would love the recommendations as an arab girl who’s trying to expose herself more to arab lit :) thank you!!
i do!!!! ngl i think i am always just reccing the same poets in different variations but i loved all of these, and hope you find some joy in them also (not all of them are works of poetry but all the authors themselves are poets) 🤍
Women of the Fertile Crescent: An Anthology of Modern Poetry by Arab Women
Paris, When It's Naked / Shifting the Silence / The Cost for Love We Are Not Willing to Pay (Etel Adnan)
Without an Alphabet, Without a Face (Saadi Yousef)
Pages of Day and Night (Adonis)
The War Works Hard / The Iraqi Nights (Dunya Mikhail)
A Red Cherry on a White-Tiled Floor / Barefoot Souls (Maram al-Masri)
The Neverfield (Nathalie Handal)
Miracle Maker: Selected Poems (Fadhil Al Azzawi)
Revolt Against the Sun (Nazik al-Malaika)
Flawed Landscape (Sharif S. Elmusa)
I'Jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody (Sinan Antoon)
Memory for Forgetfulness / Almond Blossoms and Beyond (Mahmoud Darwish--or anything by him, really)
additionally @barcarole has a lovely list of arabic poems here which i also hope you enjoy. also honourable mention to Badr Shakir al-Sayyab because by god what i wouldn't GIVE to finally have an English translation but for now am consoling myself with "Rain Song" and these two
