Andalusian Poems |
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| Editor:
| Middleton, Christopher
Garza-Falcon, Leticia |
| ISBN: | 978-0-87923-887-2 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1994 |
| Publisher: | David R. Godine Publisher
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $40.00 |
Book Description:
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This stunning collection of poems opens up an entire world: the rich, virile, and highly literate Moslem culture of medieval Spain. This pioneering volume spans the full range of poetic emotion and enterprise, making this lost world of a millennium ago marvellously tangible, vivid and palpable. It pays special attention to the female poets, and to the evolution and meaning of the verse structures and songforms. This is a work of scholarly importance as well as a straightforward poetic pleasure.
This stunning collection of poems opens up an entire world: the rich, virile, and highly literate Moslem culture of medieval Spain. This pioneering volume spans the full range of poetic emotion and enterprise, making this lost world of a millennium ago marvellously tangible, vivid and palpable. It pays special attention to the female poets, and to the evolution and meaning of the verse structures and songforms. This is a work of scholarly importance as well as a straightforward poetic pleasure.