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Independently published, 2020-03-22. Paperback. Used:Good.
Unshudat al-Matar (Rain Song) by al-Sayyab, Badr Shakir - 1960
by al-Sayyab, Badr Shakir
Unshudat al-Matar (Rain Song)
by al-Sayyab, Badr Shakir
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Beirut: Lebanese Book House, 1960. First Edition. First edition. 277 pp. In Arabic. Bound in publisher's stiff wraps with dust jacket. Very Good+ with well-toned pages, light wear and a little soiling to edges, in a Good dust jacket with a chip at the head, rubbed along edges, flaps reattached with mending tissue on verso. Publisher's prospectus laid in. Rare.
The Iraqi poet's third collection, a classic and a milestone of Arabic poetry. The titular poem has been compared to T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" for its impact on Arabic free verse.
- Bookseller Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (US)
- Book Condition Used
- Quantity Available 1
- Edition First Edition
- Publisher Lebanese Book House
- Place of Publication Beirut
- Date Published 1960
- Keywords Iraq, Arabic, Iraqi, arabian, poetry, poems, verse, poem, Lebanon