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    Habibi: the love poems of the Moroccan poet Alim Maghrebi
    Habibi: the love poems of the Moroccan poet Alim Maghrebi
    Habibi: the love poems of the Moroccan poet Alim Maghrebi
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    Habibi: the love poems of the Moroccan poet Alim Maghrebi

    By David Solway

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    Habibi, the love poems of the Moroccan poet Alim Maghrebi, is the latest in a series of David Solway's poetic "translations,"dating from Andreas Karavis' Saracen Island and including Nesmine Rifat's Pallikari, Rhys Savarin's Reaching for Clear, Bartholomew the Englishman's The Properties of Things, and Dov Ben-Zamir's New Wine, Old Bottles, the latter still in manuscript. These are what Solway calls his "ostensibles," poetic voices and artifacts which he regards as constituting an extended trope or metaphor of the desire for transformation. The purpose behind such ventures is not to perpetuate a deception but to create a style and renew a customary diction -- and, ultimately, to recreate a self.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGuernica
    Release dateJan 1, 2012
    ISBN9781550716160
    Habibi: the love poems of the Moroccan poet Alim Maghrebi
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    David Solway

    David Solway is the author of many books of poetry including Modern Marriage, which received the QSPELL Prize for Poetry; Franklin's Passage, winner of Le Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal and Reaching for Clear, awarded the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. Among his prose publications, Education Lost won the QSPELL Prize for Nonfiction and Random Walks was a finalist for Le Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal. A French translation of his writings on education, Le bon prof, was awarded Le Prix Spirale. He has also published several volumes on political subjects, of which The Big Lie: On Terror, Antisemitism, and Identity was a Canadian best-seller.

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      Book preview

      Habibi - David Solway

      ESSENTIAL POETS SERIES 193

      GUERNICA

      TORONTO • BUFFALO • BERKELEY • LANCASTER (U.K.)

      2012

      for Eric Ormsby

      Contents

      Introduction 

      A Note on the Title 

      Habibi 

      My love, why do you 

      Dearest one, were I there 

      There is a bowl of oranges on the table 

      The Kite 

      After Reading Dov Ben-Zamir 

      My Rival Writes to My Love 

      I have listened to the Weather 

      The Birthday

      I cut you a spray of roses

      I have just ordered

      Lord of the Opening, portrayed

      A Dream

      It is always

      One Day

      When I enter you

      Like the reservoir at the city gates

      I’m not good with clocks and calendars

      It is because

      Maa’ak Lilnihaya

      Names

      Do not for a moment think

      To love another truly

      I picked up the little black portable

      The Garden of Perfumed Delights

      Did you know

      Habibi, / I want only what is best for you

      I accompanied you to the terminal

      He was wearing a black galabieh

      Habibi / I have no politics

      My nose quivers in anticipation

      Too late

      After Reading the Love Poems of Dov Ben-Zamir

      I saw the light

      It’s been about 1001 nights now

      Rich loam

      Did I not say

      When the screen goes dark

      I walk by my father’s house

      Love Poem

      The cloud masonry has crumbled

      The star we walked beneath

      Between Marrakech and Taroudant

      You berate me for not calling

      Some of its rivers bubble with pure water

      I cannot speak to you

      Qasida

      Dajjal

      Forgive me, love, the lies that I have told

      Acknowledgements

      Notes

      About the Translator

      Praise for David Solway’s Poetry

      Other Books by Alim Maghrebi

      Introduction

      Alim Maghrebi was born in Casablanca in 1959, the son of Munir Maghrebi, one of Morocco’s most celebrated musical composers and an oud master of international stature. Alim was educated at the Sorbonne and did post-doctoral work at the University of London, acquiring degrees in Philosophy and Economics. Fluent in French and English, he is currently a Special Counsellor in the Morocco Bureau of Communications and Culture in Rabat.

      The fact that he was educated largely in Europe will account for his evident familiarity with Western thought and expression. But his roots run deep into the rich trad­ition of Moroccan poetry and it is from these roots that he draws his inspiration as well as the confidence to develop the contemporary idiom in

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