Shepherd of Solitude : Selected Poems 1979-2004 - Amjad Nasser (Author) - Khaled Mattawa (Translator)

ISBN: 978-0-9549666-8-3

By: Amjad Nasser

Translated by: Khaled Mattawa

Year of Publishing: 2009

Publisher: Banipal Books

Page Numbers: 175 Pages

Cover: Paperback

First poetry collection by London-based Jordanian poet Amjad Nasser in English translation by foremost Arabic poetry translator Khaled Mattawa.

A powerfully existential chronicle of exile, Shepherd of Solitude conjures a new understanding of Arab life, from war-torn Beirut, to castles in Andalusia, to Bedouin Jordan, to a London suburb in which the poet blends his Bedouin Arab heritage with European literary modernism producing an enthralling range of vivid, thoughtful and intimate poems.