Tag: arab renaissance

• A Letter between author May Ziadeh and Friend, with My Own Line of Literary Critique

  an excerpt from Intimate Pages, Part Two, with dedication to her friend Sidonie Ripperger, in May’s first book of poetry in French, Fleurs de Reve, Flowers of a Dream: …You end your letter by complaining that you are a young girl, not a young man. You are a little right; women have been called “the […]

  11/28/2022 8:33 pm

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• From the Prose Poetry of Miss May Ziadeh, Chapter “Intimate Pages”

  I have an idea for the blog to share my own little lines of literary critique of May’s writings (besides my book review of her poetry book, Fleurs de Reve Flowers of a Dream, 1911), the kind of attentiveness she valued in her own reviews and critiques, ’tho would’ve rarely in her time and place […]

  07/25/2022 8:00 pm

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• Books and Art: Sifting Through for the Best of Rumi, Kahlil Gibran Scare, and My Creative Plan for the Day

  

  I do this too…(I liked finding this illustrated at The Boston Fine Arts Museum, my own photo of this artwork I saw there)…with my silver aluminum water canteen and poetry book, and a rock to sit on. Friday, May 27th, 2022 Sifting Through for the Best of Rumi I think I’d really confused and worked […]

  05/28/2022 7:24 am

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• A Serenade by Ameen Rihani

  

  May 1, 2022 a poem for waking up…anytime A Serenade by Ameen Rihani b. Nov. 24, 1876 from Myrtles and Myrrh (1905) The moon hath said her sad good-bye,     My sleeping queen; And all the stars are wondering why    Thou art unseen. Behold! abashed, they take to flight, As through the casement breaks thy light.     […]

  05/01/2022 7:10 am

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