Naked in Exile: Khalil Hawi's Threshing Floors of Hunger

by Khalil Hawi, Adnan Haydar (Translator), Michael Beard (Translator)

Assembled in this volume are the Arabic and English texts of the three long poems that make up Hawi's Bayadir al-ju [The Threshing Floors of Hunger], The Cave, The Genie of the Beach, and Plurals in Singular Form: The Transformations of Lazarus 1962. The translators provide detailed essays that explain each poem and the specific problems encountered in translating it.

208 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1984