Miracle Maker: The Selected Poems of Fadhil Al-Azzawi

This collection features poems from Al-Azzawi s six previous Arabic poetry collections and many new poems. Springing from classical Arabic poetry, his poems speak to political exile, -cultural marginalization, and Middle Eastern and Western histories and mythologies. Al-Azzawi employs -humor, melanc [...]
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This collection features poems from Al-Azzawi s six previous Arabic poetry collections and many new poems. Springing from classical Arabic poetry, his poems speak to political exile, -cultural marginalization, and Middle Eastern and Western histories and mythologies. Al-Azzawi employs -humor, melancholy and tenderness to celebrate new worlds of possibility.Fadhil Al-Azzawi was born in 1940 in Kirkuk, Iraq. By the time he was -fifteen, he was publishing poems in the leading Arab literary magazines in Beirut and Baghdad. Al-Azzawi -currently lives in London.Khaled Mattawa (Translator) is the author of a -collection of poetry, "Ismailia" Eclipse, and the translator of two books of contemporary Arabic poetry, Hatif Janabi s "Questions" and "Their Retinue" and Saddi Youssef s "Without an Alphabet, Without a Face.""