A Demon Spirit: Arabic Hunting Poems

by Abū Nuwās

Verses on hunter and quarry from a giant of Arabic poetry

Arguably the greatest poet of the Arabic language, Abū Nuwās was renowned for his innovations in poetic genre and style and was a larger-than-life figure even among his contemporaries in Abbasid Baghdad. In A Demon Spirit, acclaimed translator and scholar James E. Montgomery renders this literary giant's hunting poetry, or ṭardiyyāt, translated for...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479834122
• ISBN13: 9781479834129
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 488 Pages