Amorisco Contributor(s): Mattawa, Khaled (Author) |
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ISBN: 1931337446 ISBN-13: 9781931337441 Publisher: Ausable Press OUR PRICE: $12.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2008 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
Dewey: 811.54 |
LCCN: 2008032811 |
Physical Information: 0.28" H x 6.02" W x 8.99" (0.34 lbs) 104 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: From "Heartsong" And I say come like a stranger, like a feather Khaled Mattawa was born in Benghazi, Libya, and immigrated to the United States in his teens. As a poet, he is a citizen of the world. Both American and an exile, he writes of the beauties and grievances of history and culture in language born of profound experience. The author of Ismailia Eclipse and translator of three volumes of contemporary Arabic poetry, Mattawa has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Alfred Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University, and an NEA translation grant. |