Qasida

Qasida

Paperback (31 Jul 1998)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Poetry. Ostensibly a meditation on the elusive pre-Islamic Arabic qasida, or ode, this aphoristic essay by the author of FROM ISLAND TO ISLAND sketches a detailed and tactile poetics of vision and recollection. "A concept of form for the complex poem ... polyphonic shifting, fickle."

Book information

ISBN: 9789659012404
Publisher: Ibis Press
Imprint: Ibis Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 892.416
Language: English
Number of pages: 74
Weight: 136g
Height: 171mm
Width: 120mm
Spine width: 6mm