Khaled Mattawa
Biographic Data
| ID | 1015831 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Khaled Mattawa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Khaled |
| FAMILY NAME | Mattawa |
| SIGNATURE | MATTAWA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Poems
Poems1 Khaled Mattawa (bio) INTO THE SEA Barely out of the jetty, the boat riseswith every wave, and in the backtwo or three fall into the sea. At sunset the boat starts to loseair, fills with water, mothersand babies fall into the sea. One side stays afloat. We clingto a rope, water up to our belliesand people fall into the sea. All night we grip and bleed.Rain so cold, waves five stories high.If only I could fall into the sea. Sunrise, a helico…
Fugitive Atlas
Fugitive Atlas:Lyric Documentation and the Migrant Flow—an Interview with Khaled Mattawa Khaled Mattawa (bio), Hadji Bakara (bio), and Joshua L. Miller (bio) Q: Can you tell us how your personal history has informed your poetic and scholarly engagements with migration? As a poet I have a ghost poem that I've been chasing since the beginnings of my writing career. It's a family story, and a story about colonialism with the requisite experiences of…
Easter Sunday, Rajab in Mid-Moon
POETRY Easter Sunday, Rajab in Mid-Moon by Khaled Mattawa after Goethe’s Divan 1. Find the poet by the channel of Mozambique flown south to taste the air of the first migrants, Al-Khidr’s progeny canoeing the other side of earth, a journey moored in myth where origins are pollen stored in the Bennu’s innards, now released. How else to be pure than to let origins digress? He’s come to submit to heaven’s teachings, a mystic reading his talismans, m…
Adonis
Born in Syria in 1930, Adonis is one of the most celebrated poets of the Arabic-speaking world. His poems have earned international acclaim, and his influence on Arabic literature has been likened to that of T. S. Eliot’s on English-language verse. This volume serves as the first comprehensive survey of Adonis’s work, allowing English readers to admire the arc of a remarkable literary career through the labors of the poet’s own handpicked transla…
Season of Tears
POETRY Season of Tears Adonis a poem in the voice of Abdulrahtnan al-Dakhil, falcon ofQuraish1 It falls quiet, the call of the wilderness. Clouds traipse above the palms and from the edge of the groves the towers are tinted rose. It falls quiet, the call of return. I ask her, and Damascus does not answer does not come to the stranger's aid. Will he stop here if he comes this way? Adonis (Ali Ahmad Said Esber) was born in 1930 in the village of Qa…
In Those Days
In Those Days Saadi Youssef Afterbeing imprisoned for a year and a half for hispoliticalviews,Saadi YoussefleftBaqouba prison in1964 andmade hisway to Algeria, thento a dozen othercitiesofexileover thepastforty-five years;he currentlylives inLondon.The Baathist regimeinIraqwas notorious for itspersecution of intellectuals and artists?through censorship,imprisonment, torture, forcedexile,and execution?during its four-decadereignofpower. In "Recept…
Tuned
Post-Gibran
This is a compilation of poetry, fiction, essays and drama confronting issues in Arab American writing.
White Nile Elegy
Days of 1933
Atta (Benghazi, 1968)
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White Nile Elegy
Days of 1933
Atta (Benghazi, 1968)
Post-Gibran
This is a compilation of poetry, fiction, essays and drama confronting issues in Arab American writing.
Tuned
In Those Days
In Those Days Saadi Youssef Afterbeing imprisoned for a year and a half for hispoliticalviews,Saadi YoussefleftBaqouba prison in1964 andmade hisway to Algeria, thento a dozen othercitiesofexileover thepastforty-five years;he currentlylives inLondon.The Baathist regimeinIraqwas notorious for itspersecution of intellectuals and artists?through censorship,imprisonment, torture, forcedexile,and execution?during its four-decadereignofpower. In "Recept…
Season of Tears
POETRY Season of Tears Adonis a poem in the voice of Abdulrahtnan al-Dakhil, falcon ofQuraish1 It falls quiet, the call of the wilderness. Clouds traipse above the palms and from the edge of the groves the towers are tinted rose. It falls quiet, the call of return. I ask her, and Damascus does not answer does not come to the stranger's aid. Will he stop here if he comes this way? Adonis (Ali Ahmad Said Esber) was born in 1930 in the village of Qa…
Adonis
Born in Syria in 1930, Adonis is one of the most celebrated poets of the Arabic-speaking world. His poems have earned international acclaim, and his influence on Arabic literature has been likened to that of T. S. Eliot’s on English-language verse. This volume serves as the first comprehensive survey of Adonis’s work, allowing English readers to admire the arc of a remarkable literary career through the labors of the poet’s own handpicked transla…
Poems
Poems1 Khaled Mattawa (bio) INTO THE SEA Barely out of the jetty, the boat riseswith every wave, and in the backtwo or three fall into the sea. At sunset the boat starts to loseair, fills with water, mothersand babies fall into the sea. One side stays afloat. We clingto a rope, water up to our belliesand people fall into the sea. All night we grip and bleed.Rain so cold, waves five stories high.If only I could fall into the sea. Sunrise, a helico…
Fugitive Atlas
Fugitive Atlas:Lyric Documentation and the Migrant Flow—an Interview with Khaled Mattawa Khaled Mattawa (bio), Hadji Bakara (bio), and Joshua L. Miller (bio) Q: Can you tell us how your personal history has informed your poetic and scholarly engagements with migration? As a poet I have a ghost poem that I've been chasing since the beginnings of my writing career. It's a family story, and a story about colonialism with the requisite experiences of…
Easter Sunday, Rajab in Mid-Moon
POETRY Easter Sunday, Rajab in Mid-Moon by Khaled Mattawa after Goethe’s Divan 1. Find the poet by the channel of Mozambique flown south to taste the air of the first migrants, Al-Khidr’s progeny canoeing the other side of earth, a journey moored in myth where origins are pollen stored in the Bennu’s innards, now released. How else to be pure than to let origins digress? He’s come to submit to heaven’s teachings, a mystic reading his talismans, m…
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