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Poetry Library Guide: Middle East

This guide provides library and internet resources for the finding, reading, and writing poetry as well as criticism on it.

General

Abundance from the Desert by Raymond Farrin
ISBN: 9780815632221
Publication Date: 2011
An Anthology of Modern Arabic Poetry by Mounah A. Khouri (Editor); Hamid Algar (Editor)
ISBN: 0520312201
Publication Date: 2023
In Queen Esther's Garden by Vera Basch Moreen (Translator)
ISBN: 9780300079050
Publication Date: 2000
Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me by Ghassan Zaqtan
ISBN: 1280062150
Publication Date: 2012
The Poetry of Arab Women from the Pre-Islamic Age to Andalusia by Wessam Elmeligi
ISBN: 9781138323575
Publication Date: 2019
The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry by Huda Fakhreddine (Editor); Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych (Editor)
ISBN: 9780367562359
Publication Date: 2023
Unfortunately, It Was Paradise by Mahmoud Darwish; Sinan Antoon (Editor); Amira El-Zein (Editor)
ISBN: 0520954602
Publication Date: 2013

Iran

The Forbidden by Sholeh Wolpé (Editor); Sholeh Wolpé (Editor)
ISBN: 9781611860344
Publication Date: 2012-02-01
Shahnameh by Abolqasem Ferdowsi; Dick Davis (Translator); Azar Nafisi (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780143108320
Publication Date: 2016

Israel

The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai by Yehuda Amichai
ISBN: 0520954440
Publication Date: 2013

Iraq

Dīwān Abī Nūwās ibn Hānī al-Ḥakamī : al-fahāris al-ʻāmmah ديوان ابي نواس بن هاني الحكمي : الفهارس العامة / تحقيق ايڤالد ڤاغنر. by Ewald Wagner
Publication Date: 2006
Listen to the Mourners by Nāzik Al-Malā'ika; 'Abdulwāḥid Lu'lu'a (Edited and Translated by)
ISBN: 9780268200947
Publication Date: 2021