Miracle Maker : The Selected Poems of Fadhil

This collection features poems from Al-Azzawi's six previous Arabic poetry collections and many new poems. Springing from classical Arabic poetry, his poems speak to political exile, -cultural marginalization, and Middle Eastern and Western histories and mythologies. Al-Azzawi employs -humor, melancholy and tenderness to celebrate new worlds of possibility. Fadhil Al-Azzawi was born in 1940 in Kirkuk, Iraq. By the time he was -fifteen, he was publishing poems in the leading Arab literary magazines in Beirut and Baghdad. Al-Azzawi -currently lives in London. Khaled Mattawa (Translator) is the author of a -collection of poetry, Ismailia Eclipse, and the translator of two books of contemporary Arabic poetry, Hatif Janabi's Questions and Their Retinue and Saddi Youssef's Without an Alphabet, Without a Face.

Introduction: The Making of a Miracle Maker	p. 9
The Clown and the Dancer	p. 21
Romeo in Old Age	p. 22
Prisoner No. 907	p. 23
The Buddhist's Masks	p. 24
Mr. Edouard Luqa's Dilemma	p. 26
A Bell	p. 28
The Teachings of F. Al-Azzawi	p. 29
Song of the Dead Arab	p. 39
The Murdered	p. 40
The Pedestrian	p. 41
Sometimes We are Born	p. 42
The Opening	p. 45
The Valley of the Beasts	p. 46
Write Your Name on Every Pain	p. 47
Man Is Nothing but a Woodsman in the Forest	p. 48
Abdullah Begs from the Sea	p. 49
The Key	p. 50
The Lover	p. 51
In the Village of Children	p. 52
A Donkey at a Mill	p. 53
An Appointment in Samarra	p. 54
The Room	p. 55
In Prison	p. 56
Signs	p. 57
The Dragon's Mountain	p. 58
The Life and Times of the Dragon	p. 59
So That We Do Not Forget	p. 60
Happiness	p. 61
Epilogue	p. 62
Defiance	p. 67
The Rope	p. 68
Brotherhood	p. 69
Cockroach	p. 70
The Three Kings	p. 71
The Last Iraq	p. 72
Memory	p. 73
In the Court of Honor	p. 77
Vision on a Bus	p. 78
A Man in Memory	p. 79
Song of Myself	p. 82
Good Morning, God	p. 85
The Prodigal Son Returns	p. 87
No Matter How Far	p. 92
God and the Devil	p. 94
Elegy for the Living	p. 95
A Movie in a Train Station	p. 105
From an Open Window unto a Dark Street	p. 106
Toasts	p. 107
Nothing Happens in My Dreams Anymore	p. 108
The Book of Lies	p. 109
Night Soldiers	p. 111
The Russian Elegy	p. 112
On the Griffon Farm	p. 114
The Magi in Our House	p. 115
The IF Poem	p. 117
The Widow on Her Balcony	p. 118
Abraham in the Garden of Fire	p. 119
The Lion and the Apostle	p. 123
Newton's Apple	p. 124
Noah After the Flood	p. 125
On Half-Deserted Streets with Prufrock	p. 126
The Surprise	p. 128
Lenin Platz in Berlin	p. 129
Toasting Betrayed Revolutions	p. 130
Before the Sky Had a Name	p. 132
Miracle Maker	p. 134
Feast in Candlelight	p. 135
Notes on the Poems	p. 137
Acknowledgments	p. 139
About the Author	p. 141
About the Translator	p. 143
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