Based on the Emilio Garcia Gomez translation (1930s) of the Kitab rayat al-mubarrizin wa-gayat al-mumayizin or The Book of the Pennants of the Champions and Standards of the Elect collected from Arabian Andalusia from 1214-74, this collection reveals some of the greatest of poetry of Andalusia, where Arabs reigned from the 9th through the 13th century. The Boston Book Review wrote of the cloth edition (1994): "Here is translation at its best: delicately textured, precise ... and above all fluid, its syntax gently ...
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Based on the Emilio Garcia Gomez translation (1930s) of the Kitab rayat al-mubarrizin wa-gayat al-mumayizin or The Book of the Pennants of the Champions and Standards of the Elect collected from Arabian Andalusia from 1214-74, this collection reveals some of the greatest of poetry of Andalusia, where Arabs reigned from the 9th through the 13th century. The Boston Book Review wrote of the cloth edition (1994): "Here is translation at its best: delicately textured, precise ... and above all fluid, its syntax gently reproducing the sense of surprise, of movement checked by perception." "This book ... may be for the twentieth century what The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam was for the nineteenth: an eye-opening on a world of which the West was wholly ignorant." -- The New Yorker
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Add this copy of Andalusian Poems to cart. $119.50, like new condition, Sold by Archer's Used & Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Kent, OH, UNITED STATES, published 1993 by David R. Godine.
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Fine Condition. Signed by Editor. Signed by Middleton and Garza-Falcon Bookplate. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Poetry; Anthology. Signed by Editor. ISBN: 0879238879. ISBN/EAN: 9780879238872. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 24116.
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SIGNED. Exquisite copy in lovely cowhide color brown. Tall with beautiful gilt titles and clean bright text. As new and never read. Fully signed by both Christopher Middleton and Leticia Garza-Falcon. An exquisite Godine production which has become scarce. Gift quality.
