Abdullah Ibn al-Mu'tazz (861–908)
Autor de Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets
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Obras de Abdullah Ibn al-Mu'tazz
al-Badī‘ 3 copias
طبقات الشعراء 1 copia
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Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Hebrew Poems. (2001) — Contribuidor — 65 copias
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- Samarra, Abbasid Caliphate
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Though I much admire al-Mu'tazz's nature poetry, of the three, al-Ma'arri speaks to me most clearly (which is a revealing discovery). An atheistic vegetarian, we have that much in common. It seems the trials of his life made him of a dour frame of mind, if not to say bitter, so I hope that's not a reflection of myself I'm catching in his mirror. Perhaps a "what could have been". I wonder whether al-Ma'arri was a particular influence on Omar Khayyám? I feel they have a similarity of attitude towards the impermanence of life and the unknowable voids that stand before and after earthly existence.
Most of the verses in the collection are a few lines long, none more than a page. I like the punchiness and directness of the forms used. Some of them are haiku-like in the layers of meaning conveyed in so few words. As with the best poetry, I found more this time than I'd seen on my previous readings.… (más)