Miracle Maker: The Selected Poems of Fadhil Al-Azzawi

This collection features poems from Al-Azzawi's six previous Arabic poetry collections and many new poems. Springing from classical Arabic poetry, his poems speak to political exile, -cultural marginalization, and Middle Eastern and Western histories and mythologies. Al-Azzawi employs -humor, melancholy and tenderness to celebrate new worlds of possibility. **Fadhil Al-Azzawi** was born in 1940 in Kirkuk, Iraq. By the time he was -fifteen, he was publishing poems in the leading Arab literary magazines in Beirut and Baghdad. Al-Azzawi -currently lives in London. **Khaled Mattawa** (Translator) is the author of a -collection of poetry, *Ismailia* Eclipse, and the translator of two books of contemporary Arabic poetry, Hatif Janabi's *Questions* and *Their Retinue* and Saddi Youssef's *Without an Alphabet, Without a Face*.