Republic Of Love

First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. By far the most popular poet of the Arab Word, popular in the true sense of the word. The late Nizar Kabbani's selected poems appear here in English for the first time. So popular is he that one of his poems is the greatest love song in the Arab world, recorded by the legendary Egyptian singer Um Khalsoum and played on virtually every taxi's radius across the Middle East.

Kabbani Nizar

Part 1 The Poems; Chapter 1 Painting With Words; Chapter 2 To A Saint; Chapter 3 To My Student; Chapter 4 In Spite; Chapter 5 Love Of 1994; Chapter 6 Give Me Love, Turn Me Green; Chapter 7 Snow; Chapter 8 Daily Love Exercises; Chapter 9 Does He Think?; Chapter 10 My Angry Cat; Chapter 11 Words; Chapter 12 The Play; Chapter 13 Only With Me; Chapter 14 The Evil Poem; Chapter 15 A Very Realistic Poem; Chapter 16 The Last Declaration Of King Schariar; Chapter 17 Lolita; Chapter 18 You Want; Chapter 19 To A Hireling; Chapter 20 A Letter To An Anonymous Man; Chapter 21 Pregnant; Chapter 22 Vessels Of Pus; Chapter 23 The Arsonist Of Rome; Chapter 24 Clown; Chapter 25 A Voice From The Harem; Chapter 26 A Bedside Sermon Behind The Closed Doors; Chapter 27 The Runners