A Red Cherry on a White-Tiled Floor
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (982 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1852246405 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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(Nov.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Mattawa renders the traditional Middle Eastern forms of Al-Massri's lyric sequences into brief English free verse. The results sound just familiar enough to draw Americans in, just strange enough to keep them in memory. All rights reserved. Her acute renditions of pain and pleasure are more than a bit suggestive of Catullus—or rather a female Catullus, whose mix of the familial and the bodily, of worries about motherhood with expression of lust, first shock, then draw admiration for their concise artistry: Before you fell asleep, a one-sentence poem asks a lover or husband, why did you forget/ to switch off/
. She has published three collections in Arabic, and her poems have been translated into many languages, with books published in French and Spanish. Maram Al-Massri was born in Latakia, Syria, and has lived in France since 1982
"Taste My Pain" according to bnberthold. Desires enchained, passions unsatisfied, affections unwanted, these are the themes of Maram Al-Massri`s exquisite collection of confessional poetry, `A Red Cherry on a White-Tiled Floor.` Wrought in unadorned and direct language, these poems sparkle like gold flecks in a pan. Full of rich metaphors and incisive wisdom, Al-Massri`s poems are a rare treat for the poetry lover.Al-Massri dissects the intricate and unfathomable workings of the human heart in this collection. Moreover, she not only examines love`s spiritual side but its physical one as well. Eros is a constant thread in these poems. Yet, she never . "before ones who cannot see" according to Pharoah S. Wail. A couple years ago after sending in the customer reply card from a previous Copper Canyon Press book, I began receiving their good old-fashioned mailed newsletter. Inside one of those was a snip from A Red Cherry on a White-tiled Floor. The snip intrigued me. I found more from Maram Al-Massri on the Copper Canyon site. That was enough. I bought the book.Unlike previous poets I've reviewed, like Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan and The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde, Maram writes nothing of politics, social issues or larger world events. All of these poems are deeply personal laments on t. The Most beautiful poems in the Universe The most touching poems in the Universe - Amazing simplicity, honesty, and tenderness from an angel.
She writes short, seductive lyrics of astonishing clarity and piercing candor, stringing them together like pearls in a story chain. Maran al-Massri is an Arab poet for the modern age. Her lines are anguished but tightly reined, breaking completely with traditional Arab love poetry to draw on everyday language as well as images and metaphors remembered and reinvented from childhood and the Koran. She was born in Syria.