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.
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.
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 Buland Al-?aidari and Modern Iraqi Poetry, ?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
