Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. The golden age of andalusian arabic poetry having spent 15 years in an arab land, i ordered this book from amazon out of curiosity to know arab poetry of ancient moors settled in spanish andalusia. Pdf poems of arab andalusia read online video dailymotion. Poems of arab andalusia paperback january 1, 2001 by cola franzen translator 4.
Her other tranlations include poems of arab andalusia 1989, reprinted 1995 and the challenge of she has translated essays on photography as well as work by. The quality stamp of cola franzen gave me the hunch that the money spent wont be in vain. The 1,000yearold lost arab poetry that lives on in hebrew. Poems of arab andalusia description city lights books. Poems of arab andalusia turtles cavort in their capes of green algae ibn sarah i. In one of these poems, the poet writes, birds trill on the branches like singing girls bending over their lutes, and when i look up, i see them outside my window, on this last warm day of winter, looking not lost but adrift. Poems from arab andalusia ryan sayre patrico first things. Contains an english translation of an anthology of poems from moorish spain of the tenth through the thirteenth centuries. Of all the fascinating things we read, the arabic poetry impressed me most. Beautiful, delicate, and refined, it has a way of conjuring up romantic and nostalgic images of lost loves, warm summer evenings, and youthful joy. These poems, from the astonishing 10th through thcentury civilization in andalusia, are based on the codex of ibn said, who wanted poems whose idea is more subtle than the west wind, and whose language is more beautiful than a fair face. Buy poems from arab andalusia by franzen, cola isbn.