<TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText>Poems of Arab Andalusia</TitleText>

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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780872862425 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100239670 02 0872862429 03 9780872862425 15 9780872862425 BC <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText>Poems of Arab Andalusia</TitleText> 1 B06 Franzen, Cola Cola Franzen Cola Franzen has translated from Spanish some twenty volumes of prose and poetry, including Poems of Arab Andalusia (City Lights), Claudia Guilln's The Challenge of Comparative Literature, and Dreams of the Abandoned Seducer by Alicia Borinsky. 2 B01 Franzen, Cola Cola Franzen Cola Franzen has translated from Spanish some twenty volumes of prose and poetry, including Poems of Arab Andalusia (City Lights), Claudia Guilln's The Challenge of Comparative Literature, and Dreams of the Abandoned Seducer by Alicia Borinsky. 01 spa 96 00 96 03 03 0 03 24 Internet CL Hierarchy European Writing 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Poetry 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Poetry in Translation 01 These poems, from the astonishing 10th- through 13th-century civilization in Andalusia, are based on the codex of Ibn Sa'id, who wanted poems "whose idea is more subtle than the West Wind, and whose language is more beautiful than a fair face." Spanish readers have long been enchanted by their enduring appeal through the versions by Emilio Garcia Gomez. This poetry of Arab Andalusia made a profound impact on Spain's Generation of '27. Rafael Alberti says that it "was a revelation for me and had a great influence on my work, but above all influenced the work of Federico Garcia Lorca. 02 These poems, from the astonishing 10th- through 13th-century civilization in Andalusia, are based on the codex of Ibn Sa'id, who wanted poems "whose idea is more subtle than the West Wind, and whose language is more beautiful than a fair face."... 08 "Cola Franzen in 1989 translated into English the Spanish versions of the Arab poems by Emilio Garcia Gomez, a Spanish Arabist who had acquired a large body of Arab Andalusian poetry while in Egypt in 1927. There are undoubtedly African, Jewish and Berber poets in her City Lights book, Poems of Arab Andalusia, but they were all writing in Arabic, just as today many African and Berber writers work in French and English. . .Today in the New World, even in the American Southwest and California, Arab Andalusian architecture and landscaping is manifest if unrecognized. It was appropriate that a California publisher, City Lights, should remind the New World how indebted it is to Arab Andalusia." Djelloul Marbrook Istanbul Literary Review 08 "Cola Franzen's vibrant, delicious and faithful renderings of this poetic motherlode are, to quote from a poet in her marvelous compilation, 'shooting stars that leap agile as acrobats'." Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno, author of An Invisible Spectator: A Biography of Paul Bowles 08 "Of those things which delight the senses (according to a Tradition of the Prophet) the chiefest are 'water, green things & a beautiful face'; therefore a poetry of noble exquisiteness limits itself to certain tropes, in which the wisdom of sensuality is endlessly rediscovered. Blow dust from the folios of the vanished Moors & be stabbed by the Urgent Necessity of light-dappled fountains, the fractals of the garden, the transmutations of desire." Peter Lamborn Wilson, author of Scandal: Essays in Islamic Heresy 04 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100239670/images/87286100239670L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100239670/images/87286100239670S.jpg http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100239670 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 19900301 01 8 in 02 5.5 in 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 19900301 01 02 12.95 USD