How Abraham Abandoned Me (ARC Translations) - Brossura

Bejan Matur

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ISBN 10: 1906570000 ISBN 13: 9781906570002

Casa editrice: Arc Publications, 2012

Riassunto

This collection covers the broad vision of mankind's history with a story of an individual journey, in the course of which the poet explores the cosmic and the microcosm, the immensities of Time and Space, of becoming and Being. The poems came during a pilgrimage in south-western Anatolia. Matur has created a personalised iconography based on Islamic references and imagery, and she presenting complex ideas with a simplicity of expression that is perfectly mirrored in Ruth Christie's translation.

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Recensione:

"How Abraham Abandoned Me is an astonishing book. On the one hand, it takes the iconography of Islam, the One-Thousand-and-one-Nights, personal narrative, the tussles with religious doubt and the struggle of the Kurdish people, throws them up in the air and, from the resulting poetic pick-up-sticks creates a compelling, surging poetry." --Ian Pople, Manchester Review

L'autore:

Bejan Matur has published four books of poetry, her first winning two major literary prizes. A translated selection of her poems, The Temple of a Patient God, was published by Arc Publications. Matur s poetry has been translated into 17 different languages.

Ruth Christie was born in Scotland. Her recent translation of Poems of Oktay Rifat with Richard McKane was a runner-up in for the Popescu Poetry Prize.

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• Editore: Arc Publications
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1906570000
• ISBN 13: 9781906570002
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 150