Buland Al-Haidari and Modern Iraqi Poetry av Buland Al-Haidari

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<p><b>In this brilliant book, ?Abdulwa?id Lu¿lu¿a translates and introduces eighty poems from one of the pioneers of modern Arabic poetry, Buland Al-?aidari.</b></p><p>Buland Al-?aidari might fairly be considered the fourth pillar holding up the dome of modern Arabic poetry. Alongside his famous contemporaries Nazik al-Mala''ika, Badre Shakir Al-Sayyab, and ¿Abdulwahhab Al-Bayyati, Al-?aidari likewise made significant contributions to the development of twentieth-century Arabic poetry, including the departure from the traditional use of two-hemistich verses in favor of what has been called the Arabic ¿free verse¿ form.</p><p>A few of Al-?aidari¿s poems have been translated into English separately, but no book-length translation of his poetry has been published until now. In <i>Buland Al-?aidari and Modern Iraqi Poetry</i>, ?Abdulwa?id Lu¿lu¿a translates eighty of Al-?aidari¿s most important poems, giving English-speaking readers access to this rich corpus. Lu¿lu¿a¿s perceptive introduc