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| Title: | Poetry of Sa’di Yusuf
: Between Homeland & Exile |
| Author: | Yair Huri |
| ISBN: | 184519148X : 9781845191481 |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 152x229mm |
| Pages: | 352 |
| Weight: | .66 Kg. |
| Published: | Sussex Academic Press - September 2006 |
| List Price: | 55 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Works by individual poets: from c1900-: Middle East |
Sa'di Yusuf has long been acknowledged as Iraq's foremost living poet and one of the pre-eminent modernists of Arabic poetry. In this first book-length study in English on the subject, the author seeks to provide a comprehensive look at Yusuf’s literary accomplishments through thematic analysis and close readings that place his texts within wider literary contexts. Encompassing discussions of more than a hundred poems, this study offers a coherent framework for understanding the body of work created by a major poet of our time.
Transferring Life into Words; "I Walk with Everyone but Each Step is Mine"; Poet of His People: 1955-1963; Exile, Homecoming, Exile: The Aesthetics of Displacement; War, Metapoetics and Minute Realities: The Later Poetry; Index.
"Ever since I began reading Sa’di Yusuf he has become the one who appealed the most to my poetic taste. He is one of our greatest poets. Poetry led him -- or rather he led poetry -- to revolt against the transcendence of poetic language and in its stead to create a new language: one characterised by austerity and its core by the search for essence. In this way poetry in his poems becomes life itself -- life in all its fullness and spontaneity." -- Mahmud Darwish. "Sa’di Yusuf is a poet of universality and multiple open visions enabling us to discover the poetics of the real world." -- Abbas Beydhoun, Lebanese poet and critic. "Sa’di Yusuf was born in Iraq, but he has become, through the vicissitudes of history and the cosmopolitan appetites of his mind, a poet, not only of the Arab world, but of the human universe." -- Marilyn Hacker, American poet and critic.
