Unshudat al-Matar (Rain Song)
Beirut: Lebanese Book House, 1960.
First edition. 277 pp. In Arabic. Bound in publisher's stiff wraps with dust jacket. Very Good+ with well-toned pages, light wear and a little soiling to edges, in a Good dust jacket with a chip at the head, rubbed along edges, flaps reattached with mending tissue on verso. Publisher's prospectus laid in. Rare. The Iraqi poet's third collection, a classic and a milestone of Arabic poetry. The titular poem has been compared to T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" for its impact on Arabic free verse.
Price: $600.00
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