Poems. English & Arabic. Selections;Arabian love poems / Nizar Kabbani, translated by Bassam K. Frangieh and Clementina R. Brown.

Qabbānī, Nizār, author.
Boulder, Colorado : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999.
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  • Includes bibliographical references.
  • Oh green bird — My lover asks me — When I fell in love — You still ask me about the day of my birth — Oh, my love — All words — I hadn’t told them about you — I hate to love like other people — Your love — From the moment you loved me — When I am in love (no. 1) — When I am in love (no. 2) — I love you when you cry — I don’t know my birthday — Your eyes are like a rainy night — I wrote the name of the one I loved — Oh traveler — Our love — Don’t worry — When I travel into your eyes — Like a fish — I am the prophet of love — Undress yourself — I have changed so much — Because my love for you — I want to write different words for you — That March morning when you came walking toward me — When I told you.
  • When God bestowed women on men — I was never a king — Why do you erase history — I taught the children of the world — Pure like a necklace of jasmine — I love you — Your love took me — I wear you — My kingdom of little things (excerpt) — Out of my desire — The two years — When I am with you — I’m not a teacher — My letters to you — In the summer — Every time I kiss you — My love runs to you — Every man — Stay out of my sight — When rain fell on both of us — I curl up — I hope one day — When you visit me — Every time you traveled — Did you ever think — The day I met you — Close all my books — Yesterday I thought — Please — Why do you ask me to write you — Pull out the dagger buried in my side — From the airplane (excerpt) — Before I entered the cities of your mouth (excerpt).
  • It is all over (excerpt) — What would your femininity say about me (excerpt) — When you accompany me — When you danced with me that night — When you find a man — I knew — Your departure is not a tragedy — While Rome burned, you burned — Do you have a solution — Drink your coffee — I am accused of being like Shahrayar — Why do you telephone, my lady — You wear hippie clothes — Be assured, my lady — This is my last letter — About sea love — I learn by reading your body — To my love on New Year’s Eve — Will you allow me to take a holiday? — Time travels with you when you leave — Love during house arrest — Women, the knowledge of God — I will tell you: I love you — The talk of her hands — I am afraid — Who is the prettiest? — I conquer the universe with words.
  • Original Arabic texted presented alongside English translation.

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