蜜桃传媒

Verses on hunter and quarry from a giant of Arabic poetry

Arguably the greatest poet of the Arabic language, Ab奴 Nuw膩s 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, prize-winning translator and scholar James E. Montgomery renders this literary giant鈥檚 hunting poetry, or 峁璦谤诲颈测测腻迟, translated for the first time in vivid English.

Ab奴 Nuw膩s鈥檚 poems radiate brilliance, ingenuity, and lyrical attentiveness to both nature and body. These hunting poems convey the crackling energy of ruthless predators and wily prey, the worryingly uncertain outcome of perilous pursuits, and the mythic perfection of warriors both human and animal鈥攁ll the while overturning genre structures and power dynamics with unforgettable imagery expressed in smooth, natural language.

A bilingual Arabic-English edition.