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Poems of Arab Andalusia
by
Cola Franzen
These poems, from the astonishing 10th- through 13th-century civilization in Andalusia, are based on the codex of Ibn Sa'id, who wanted poems "whose idea is more subtle than the West Wind, and whose language is more beautiful than a fair face." Spanish readers have long been enchanted by their enduring appeal through the versions by Emilio García Gómez. This poetry of Arab...more
Paperback, 96 pages
Published
January 1st 2001
by City Lights Publishers
(first published March 1st 1990)
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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. The quality stamp of Cola Franzen gave me the hunch that the money spent won't be in vain. Now the truth is that this is one poetry book I won't part with as I am so much in love with it.
The discovery of the treasure of ancient Andalusian Arab poetry is a story of chance encounter. It was made by a g...more
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. The quality stamp of Cola Franzen gave me the hunch that the money spent won't be in vain. Now the truth is that this is one poetry book I won't part with as I am so much in love with it.
The discovery of the treasure of ancient Andalusian Arab poetry is a story of chance encounter. It was made by a g...more
Excellent poetry of wide appeal
Though the poetry of the great medieval kingdom of Al-Andalus is well known to scholars and historians of that civilization, it's too little known among general readers in the western world. In this book, Cola Franzen has translated several score mostly brief poems of the period from the Spanish translations of the Arabic done by Emilio Garcia Gomez. I don't have the languages to evaluate them as translations, but I think any reader of the English will be delighted...more
Though the poetry of the great medieval kingdom of Al-Andalus is well known to scholars and historians of that civilization, it's too little known among general readers in the western world. In this book, Cola Franzen has translated several score mostly brief poems of the period from the Spanish translations of the Arabic done by Emilio Garcia Gomez. I don't have the languages to evaluate them as translations, but I think any reader of the English will be delighted...more
This is an anthology within an anthology, within an anthology. The book I’m holding in my hands, published in 1989 by City Lights Books of San Francisco, is translations from the Spanish by Cola Franzen. She based her translated poems on a book called Poemas Araigoandaluces of translations from the Arabic by Emilio Garcia Gomez originally published in 1930 but remaining in print to this day. The original poems in Arabic were in collected in the codex of Ibn Sa’id dated 1243. This contains poems...more
I read this in college and absolutely loved it! Beautiful and moving poetry.
I regret loaning it to a classmate who never returned it ... now I'm planning to buy it again, because this is something I'm planning to re-read in the future.
I regret loaning it to a classmate who never returned it ... now I'm planning to buy it again, because this is something I'm planning to re-read in the future.
Sensual, male centered poems. Rich imagery. I wished for some notes as to the Arabic poetic convention within which these verses appeared.
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She has published fifteen books of translations, among them poetry, fiction, and criticism by notable Spanish and Latin American authors. She has translated essays on photography as well as work by Cuban art critic and historian Gerardo Mosquera. Her publications include Dreams of the Abandoned Seducer, a novel (University of Nebraska Press, 1998; and The Collapsible Couple/ La pareja desmontable,...more
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