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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
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