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Publication Date: March 1, 2010

First poetry collection by London-based Jordanian poet in English translation by foremost Arabic poetry translator.

"With his unusually wide and expressive range Amjad Nasser unites the varied facets of his experience in a discourse at once perceptive, critical, tender, and ironically comic."
Alfred Corn

At times a powerfully existential chronicle of exile, Shepherd of Solitude conjures a new understanding of Arab life, from war-torn Beirut, to castles in Andalusia, to Bedouin Jordan, to a London suburb. Amjad Nasser blends his Bedouin Arab heritage with European literary modernism producing an enthralling range of vivid, thoughtful and intimate poems.

Shepherd of Solitude is Amjad Nasser's first English collection, translated and introduced by the foremost translator of contemporary Arabic poetry into English Khaled Mattawa, with the poems selected by poet and translator from the poet's Arabic volumes over the years 1979 to 2004.

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Paperback: 175 pages
Publisher: Banipal Publishing; Thm Tra edition (March 1, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0954966686
ISBN-13: 978-0954966683
Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 0.5 x 7.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

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