Loss Sings by Al-Khansa, James Montgomery

40 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

biography poetry emotional reflective sad slow-paced
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The seventh-century poet Tumadir, also known as al-Khansaʾ—a sobriquet that means “the Snub-nosed Gazelle doe”—survived both her brothers. Her poetic output consists of dirges for those dead brothers. In Loss Sings, James Montgomery translates a n...

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