The Book of Rain - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Abū Zayd Al-Anṣārī, David Larsen (Translator)Publish date:10/7/2025Pages:200
Language:EnglishPublisher:Wave BooksISBN-13:9798891060364UPC:9798891060364Book Category:Poetry, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Middle Eastern, Ancient & Classical, PoetrySize:9.40 x 6.90 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCY9TGVDXR
The Book of Rain
The contents of the future are the contents of a cloud.So begins translator David Larsen's introduction for the Book of Rain, the earliest known catalogue of Arabic weather-words, by early Arabic linguist Abū Zayd al-Anṣārī. In Larsen's translation, Abū Zayd's lexicography of rain is simultaneously an academic, archival, and poetic pursuit.After the fashion of Larsen's award-winning translation...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Wave BooksISBN-13:9798891060364UPC:9798891060364Book Category:Poetry, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Middle Eastern, Ancient & Classical, PoetrySize:9.40 x 6.90 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCY9TGVDXR
David Larsen is a U.S. poet and translator of classical Arabic texts. His translation of Ibn Khālawayh's Names of the Lion (Wave Books) received the 2018 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. A former fellow of the Library of Arabic Literature, he is at work on a bilingual edition of the poems of Jamīl Buthaynah. David Larsen lives in New York City. Abū Zayd...
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