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Nouri Al-Jarrah The Stone Serpent (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- The Stone Serpent : Barates of Palmyra's Elegy for Regina His Beloved
- Publication Name
- The Stone Serpent
- Title
- The Stone Serpent
- Subtitle
- Barates of Palmyra's Elegy for Regina his Beloved
- Translator
- Catherine Cobham
- Contributor
- Catherine Cobham (Translated by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9781913043292
- ISBN
- 9781913043292
- Publisher
- Banipal
- Genre
- Poetry
- Topic
- Middle Eastern, Epic
- Release Date
- 12/10/2022
- Release Year
- 2022
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 0.4in
- Item Length
- 7.7in
- Item Width
- 5in
- Item Weight
- 4.2 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Language
- English
- Number of Pages
- 112 Pages
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Syrian poet Nouri al-Jarrah brings to life a story that can never again be lost in time after a single line in Aramaic on a tombstone fired his imagination. This inspiring epic poem awakens two extraordinary lovers, Barates, a Syrian from Palmyra, and Regina, the Celtic slave he freed and married, from where they have lain at rest beside Hadrian's Wall for eighteen centuries, and tells their unique story. Barates' elegy to his beloved wife, who died young at 30, is, however, not about mythologizing history. With the poet himself an exile in Britain for 40 years from his birthplace of Damascus, the poem forges new connections with today, linking al-Jarrah's personal journey with that of his ancient forebear Barates, who resisted slavery with love. Barates' Eastern song also questions whether the young Celtic fighters, the Tattooed Ones, were really barbarians, as they emerged from forest mists to defend their hills and rivers and their way of life from the Romans, and died or lay wounded at the twisting stone serpent that was Hadrian's Wall.
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Publisher
Banipal
ISBN-10
1913043290
ISBN-13
9781913043292
eBay Product ID (ePID)
21058379270
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Stone Serpent : Barates of Palmyra's Elegy for Regina His Beloved
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Middle Eastern, Epic
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
112 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.7in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
4.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Number of Volumes
1 Vol.
Lc Classification Number
Pj7840.A7783
Reviews
After translating the poems Catherine Cobham wrote: "These poems say so much in such concentrated lyrical ways about exile, empire, migration, borders - not to mention the visceral evocation of northern English weather." While Nouri Al-Jarrah has commented: "Mythologies can no longer be reproduced as they are without a reinterpretation. The poet must range between the epic text, in its own time, and today" Professor of Arabic at Rome's LUISS Guido Carli Francesca Maria Corrao writes: "Nouri Al-Jarrah is not an antihero but a modern hero representative of a new generation in search of space to create a future in a world filled with the overwhelming presence of the fathers" Writing about an earlier collection, Abdo Wazen, cultural editor of Independent Arabia , says: "Nouri Al-Jarrah's poem, A Boat to Lesbos, immediately found its place at the vanguard of the tragic poetry that has been written within Syria, in the Syrian exile and in the Arab world. The work has become part of world poetry, not just through the medium of translation but through its poetic lexicon, which fuses the universal, as expressed through the legacy of ancient Greece, with the Syrian and Arab dimension."
Table of Content
CONTENTSAuthor' s Note 1An Eastern Serenade - Barates of Palmyra' s Elegy for Regina his Beloved 3After An Eastern Serenade Voices and Songs 49Regina' s Song by the River 51The Archer from Palmyra 53The Birth of the Painted Warrior 55News of Boudicca 58A Roman Elegy 60The Tongue of Fire The Ruin 64Julia Domna' s Missing Fingers 67The Edict of Caracalla 69Notes 73Related References 95Acknowledgements 97About the author Nouri Al-Jarrah 98About the translator Catherine Cobham 100
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Dewey Decimal
892.717
Dewey Edition
23
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