Research Catalog

Title

• Except for this unseen thread / Ra'ad Abdulqadir ; translated from the Arabic by Mona Kareem = سوى هذا الخيط الذي لا يرى / رعد عبد القادر ؛ ترجمتها عن العربية منى كريم.
• Except for this unseen thread / Ra'ad Abdulqadir ; translated from the Arabic by Mona Kareem = Siwá hādhā al-khayṭ alladhī lā yurá / Raʻd ʻAbd al-Qādir ; tarjamatʹhā ʻan al-ʻArabīyah Muná Karīm.

Author

• عبد القادر: رعد.
• ʻAbd al-Qādir, Raʻd

Publication

• Brooklyn, NY : Ugly Duckling Presse, 2021.
• [Berkeley, California] : SPD/Small Press Distribution ; [Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom] : Inpress Books
• [Saline, Michigan] : McNaughton & Gunn
• ©2021

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Additional Authors

• ʻAbd al-Qādir, Raʻd.
• Kareem, Mona
• Ugly Duckling Presse, publisher.
• McNaughton & Gunn (Firm), printer.

Description

60, 62 pages; 21 cm

Summary

• "Published in Baghdad in 2006, Falcon with Sun Overhead and The Age of Entertainment inspired a new generation of Iraqi poets, charmed by Ra'ad's ability to write tender poems in times of destruction and fury. While many of his peers were writing poems about battlefields and faraway exiles, Ra'ad was looking closer in, at the loneliness of those left behind. Hailed for its cinematic portrait of Iraq under sanctions--the bread queues, busy cemeteries, empty schools, and the impossible departures and returns, Ra'ad's work commemorates the wonders of a city staying still, one blink at a time. Except for This Unseen Thread, the first collection of Ra'ad's work in English translation, is comprised of poems selected from both titles, with an introduction by the translator."--Publisher's website, viewed July 27, 2021.
• "Published in Baghdad in 2006, Falcon with Sun Overhead and The Age of Entertainment inspired a new generation of Iraqi poets, charmed by Raʼad's ability to write tender poems in times of destruction and fury. While many of his peers were writing poems about battlefields and faraway exiles, Raʼad was looking closer in, at the loneliness of those left behind. Hailed for its cinematic portrait of Iraq under sanctions--the bread queues, busy cemeteries, empty schools, and the impossible departures and returns, Raʼad's work commemorates the wonders of a city staying still, one blink at a time. Except for This Unseen Thread, the first collection of Raʼad's work in English translation, is comprised of poems selected from both titles, with an introduction by the translator."--Publisher's website.

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections. English. 2021

Alternative Title

• Poems. 2021
• سوى هذا الخيط الذي لا يرى
• Siwá hādhā al-khayṭ alladhī lā yurá

Subjects

• ʻAbd al-Qādir, Raʻd > Translations into English
• Translations
• Poetry
• Poems
• 2003-2011
• Iraq War > (2003-2011)
• Iraq
• Social aspects
• Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Social aspects > Poetry
• Arabic poetry > 21st century > Translations into English
• Arabic poetry > Iraq > Translations into English

Genre/Form

• Poems.
• Poetry.
• Translations.

Note

• "First edition, First printing, 2021"--Title page verso.

Language (note)

• In English translation, and the original Arabic, with separate title pages, English and Arabic text paged separately, and bound back to back.

Call Number

JX 23-1038

ISBN

• 1946433802 (paperback)
• 9781946433800 (paperback)

OCLC

1241731216

Author

ʻAbd al-Qādir, Raʻd, author.

Alternate Script for Author

عبد القادر: رعد.

Title

Except for this unseen thread / Ra'ad Abdulqadir ; translated from the Arabic by Mona Kareem = Siwá hādhā al-khayṭ alladhī lā yurá / Raʻd ʻAbd al-Qādir ; tarjamatʹhā ʻan al-ʻArabīyah Muná Karīm.

Alternate Script for Title

Except for this unseen thread / Ra'ad Abdulqadir ; translated from the Arabic by Mona Kareem = سوى هذا الخيط الذي لا يرى / رعد عبد القادر ؛ ترجمتها عن العربية منى كريم.

Publisher

Brooklyn, NY : Ugly Duckling Presse, 2021.

Distributor

[Berkeley, California] : SPD/Small Press Distribution ; [Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom] : Inpress Books

Manufacturer

[Saline, Michigan] : McNaughton & Gunn

Copyright Date

©2021

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Biography

"Ra'ad Abdulqadir (1953-2003) is a pioneer of the Iraqi prose poem, the author of five poetry collections, and a lifelong editor of Aqlam, Iraq's leading literary magazine. Except for This Unseen Thread: Selected Poems (Ugly Duckling Presse), translated by Mona Kareem, is his first collection in English translation."--Publisher's website, viewed July 27, 2021.

"Mona Kareem is the author of three poetry collections, and most recently, the trilingual chapbook Femme Ghosts (Publication Studio). She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and is a Translator-in-Residence at Princeton University. Her translations include Octavia Butler's Kindred into Arabic (Takween Publishing); Ashraf Fayadh's Instructions Within (The Operating System), longlisted for the BTBA 2017 awards; and Ra'ad Abdulqadir's selected poems, Except for This Unseen Thread."--Publisher's website, viewed July 27, 2021.

Language

In English translation, and the original Arabic, with separate title pages, English and Arabic text paged separately, and bound back to back.

Alternate Script for Subject

عبد القادر: رعد.

Chronological Term

2003-2011

Place of Publication

United States New York Brooklyn.

Added Author

ʻAbd al-Qādir, Raʻd. Poems. Selections.

ʻAbd al-Qādir, Raʻd. Poems. Selections. English.

Kareem, Mona, translator.

Ugly Duckling Presse, publisher.

McNaughton & Gunn (Firm), printer.

Added Title Page Title

Siwá hādhā al-khayṭ alladhī lā yurá

Alternate Script for Added Title Page Title

سوى هذا الخيط الذي لا يرى

Research Call Number

JFD 22-1104