#women of the fertile crescent: an anthology of modern poetry by arab women

[7adreen]

“Through galaxies of stars and planets,” by Mona Saudi from Women of the Fertile Crescent: an anthology of modern poetry by Arab women (1978)

#Mona Saudi #Women of the Fertile Crescent : an anthology of modern poetry by Arab women #70s #poetry #arab literature

[emiliosandozsequence]

for JUDE ST. FRANCIS from A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

the diaries of franz kafka, franz kafka / ojibwa / simone de beauvoir, from a letter to jean-paul sartre / manuscript of the brothers karamazo, fyodor dostoevsky / how to cure a ghost, fariha róisín / postcolonial love poem, 'american arithmetic', natalie díaz / life of the party, 'we all got burnt that summer', olivia gatwood / saint stephen by john everett millais / the sorrow festival, erin slaughter / women of the fertile crescent: an anthology of modern poetry by arab women 'jebu', etel adnan / beast at every threshold, 'ten years after diagnosis', natalie wee

#a little life #jude st. francis #jude st francis #alittlelifeedit #web weave #web weaving #web weaves #web weavings #comparative #comparatives #mww #mine

[halcyondaaze]

shattered

Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs, tr. by Sam Bett and David Boyd // Louise Glück, Adult Grief // Horace Vernet, The Maiden’s Lament (oil on canvas) // Mona Sa’udi, “When the loneliness of the tomb,” from Women of the Fertile Crescent: An Anthology of Modern Poetry by Arab Women, tr. by Kamal Boullata // Photography by 西游朽 (xiuxiukong) // Mark Strand, "Keeping Things Whole" from Selected Poems by Mark Strand, 1979 // Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life, 1978 (paraphrased) // Graveyard statue in Coburg, Germany // Anaïs Nin, Fire: From “A Journal of Love”: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (paraphrased) // Bust of Alexander the Great, found in Palazzo Massimo courtyard, Lancellotti, Rome

#web weaving #web weave #literary parallels #parallels #comparative #alone #isolated #isolation #dissociation #dissociated #depersonalization #lonely #depressed #depression #no friends #void #a void #sad #sadness #sorrow #ruined #broken #quote #quotes #hopelessness #pessimistic #nihilistic #cynical #cynicism #dark acadamia aesthetic

[soracities]

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

#also did not include farrokhazad bc i'm never sure if iran is included w arab literature since the language is farsi or if its based on #shared region / history / culture #but enjoy!!! #ask #stuckinapril #poetry recs

[garadinervi]

Hanan Daoud Mikhael Ashrawi (حنان داود ميخائيل عشراوي), Economics, in Women of the Fertile Crescent. An Anthology of Modern Poetry by Arab Women, Edited with Translations by Kamal Boullata, Three Continents Press, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 143

#graphic design #poetry #book #hanan mikhael #hanan ashrawi #kamal boullata #three continents press #1970s

[feral-ballad]

sorry if this is specific but do you know any quotes about pomegranates in relation to love? whether it be hades/persephone related or a general idea, i’m just looking for something to add to my girlfriend’s valentines card😭 i’ve always felt the act of sharing fruit was very romantic and i got her a pomegranate patch, however i just felt adding a quote to the card might help her understand the meaning behind it a bit more. if not, i totally get it and thank you for your time!!

this is the cutest!🫀🤍

I’ll kiss you in the pomegranate garden.

From I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan, tr. by Eliza Griswold

Salma al-Khadra al-Jayyusi, ed. by Kamal Boullata, from Women of the Fertile Crescent: An Anthology of Modern Arabic Poetry by Arab Women; “Dearest Love — III”

I have sat down in the middle of the Earth, my love, in the middle of my life, to open my veins and my chest, to peel my skin like a pomegranate, and to break the red mahogany of these bones that loved you.

Gabriela Mistral, tr. by Randall Couch, From Madwomen: The Locas Mujeres Poems of Gabriela Mistral, a Bilingual Edition; “The Abandoned Woman”

Igor Severyanin, tr. by Avrahm Yarmolinsky, from Modern Russian Poetry: An Anthology; “And it passed by the sea-shore”

My heart is a fiery pomegranate, / its scarlets clustered, and its wax opened, / which could offer you its tender beads / with the stubbornness of a man in love.

Miguel Hernández, tr. by Robert Bly; “Your heart?—It is a Frozen Orange”

Jeanette Winterson, from Written on the Body

Tell them that you weren’t hungry, tell them you followed the pomegranates seeds because they tasted like blood, like love.

Pauline Albanese, from The Closed Doors

Oscar Wilde, “In the Gold Room”

#anon #ask #compilations #recs

[ourpoizn]

Margaret Atwood, from Last Day / Mona Sa’udi, from Women of the Fertile Crescent: An Anthology of Modern Poetry by Arab Women / Brittany Hailer, from “Girl, Beast, or Bastard,” Animal You’ll Surely Become /Susanna Majuri (Finnish, b. 1978, Järvenpää, Finland, based Helsinki, Finland) - Kaksoset (Gemini), 2009, Saviour, 2008, Waterfall, 2009 from her book Sense of Water.

#web weaving #web weave #spilled thoughts #bad memories #memories #the past #letting go

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Phyllis Shafer - Moonrise, 2015, oil on canvas, 32 x 38 in Phyllis Shafer (American, 1958)  :::  [Gwyllm Llwydd]

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“night beckons / an endless path / yawning towards eternity.” 

 — Salma al-Khadra al-Jayyusi, from ‘Storm in Kabyl land’ (trans. Charles Doria), Women of the Fertile Crescent: An Anthology of Modern Poetry by Arab Women (ed. Kamal Boullata)

[alive on all channels]

#moonrise #Phyllis Shafer #Gwylim Llwydd #about art #moon #night #poetry #poem #Salma al-Khadra al-Jayyusi #Storm in Kabyl land #Women of the Fertile Crescent #Arab Women #Alive On All Channels

[oldwinesoul]

Therese Awwad, ‘My loneliness ages like wine’, Women of the Fertile Crescent: An Anthology of Modern Poetry by Arab Women (ed. & trans. Kamal Boullata)

#poets on tumblr #dark academia #aesthetic #spilled poetry #words #spilled ink #spilled thoughts #19th century #vintage #love poem #dark acadamia aesthetic #dark academia books #renaissance art #renaissance #poetry #dark academia lovers #vintage classics #dark acdemia #Therese Awwad #Kamal Boullata

[yaya-tchoum]

I shatter in all my dimensions

I multiply

I take on shapes like water

~•Mona Sa’udi•~

#Mona Sa’udi , from “When the loneliness of the tomb,” in Women of the Fertile Crescent: An Anthology of Modern Poetry by Arab Women (translated and edited by Kamal Boullata).

[lightingway]

Naked, naked my soul / And in November fog / No crowd to see? / No sorrow to bear?

Aïcha Arnaout, “The Visitor,” Women of the Fertile Crescent: An Anthology of Modern Poetry by Arab Women (tr. Kamal Boullata)

#c: rafael estrada #a: rafael estrada #v: ouroboros #t: words

[existential-celestial]

Mona Sa’udi, from “When the loneliness of the tomb,” in Women of the Fertile Crescent: An Anthology of Modern Poetry by Arab Women (translated and edited by Kamal Boullata).

#mona sa'udi #women of the fertile crescent: an anthology of modern poetry by arab women #women of the fertile crescent #quote #poem #kamal boullata #fluidity #(i contain multitudes) #arabic poetry #book list 2020 #*

[thebluesthour]

Etel Adnan, from “Love Poems”, Women of the Fertile Crescent: An Anthology of Modern Poetry by Arab Women (ed. & trans. Kamal Boullata)

[Text ID: “and the warmth of your passion takes on the colors of frost white as a permanent spring.”]

#lit #quotes #poetry #words #Etel Adnan #Love Poems #Women of the Fertile Crescent: An Anthology of Modern Poetry by Arab Women #typography #the lovers #colour spectrum #lebanese lit #poetry in translation #m

[soracities]

Etel Adnan, from ‘Jebu’, Women of the Fertile Crescent: An Anthology of Modern Poetry by Arab Women (ed. & trans. Kamal Boullata)

[Text ID: “this body pierced with holes / burned by sulfur opened by manganese / wounds on its mouth and petroleum for its kisses refugee with no refuge”]

#q #lit #quotes #poetry #etel adnan #jebu #women of the fertile crescent #typography #of war and violence #reading #m #x

[garadinervi]

Saniyya Saleh (سنية صالح), Exile, in Women of the Fertile Crescent. An Anthology of Modern Poetry by Arab Women, Edited with Translations by Kamal Boullata, Three Continents Press, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 203

#graphic design #poetry #book #saniyya saleh #sania saleh #kamal boullata #three continents press #1970s

[feral-ballad]

Evening darling

Could you suggest me some books, collections of arabic poetry, if you have any?✍(◔◡◔)

I read some quotes on your blog and they mesmerized me.(★‿★)

quite a tricky one because the english translations for them are not very accessible and i've read the majority in their original language. but i'll list down the ones i’ve read & that do have translations! 🫀

A River Dies of Thirst: Journals by Mahmoud Darwish

Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems by Mahmoud Darwish

Republic of Love: Selected Poems by Nizar Qabbani

Arabian Love Poems by Nizar Qabbani

The War Works Hard by Dunya Mikhail

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

Adonis: Selected Poems

Women of the Fertile Crescent: An Anthology of Modern Poetry by Arab Women (ed. Kamal Boullata)

The poetry of Arab women: A Contemporary Anthology (ed. Nathalie Handal)

An anthology of modern Arabic poetry (ed. Mounah A. Khouri and Hamid Algar)

Modern Arabic Poetry: An Anthology (ed. Salma Khadra Jayyusi)

and i recommend checking out my #arabic literature tag (if you haven’t already) !! 🏷 ♡ 🪹🦢

#recs #ask #on poetry