AMIN SALEH: THE POETRY OF AN UNFAMILIAR SELF

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their thoughtful input and thorough engagement with the many versions of the manuscript, which resulted in a significantly elevated and enriched translation.

Notes

1. Cf. Razzouq, Al-Ustura fi ash-Shi`r al-Mu`asir; and El-Azma, “The Tammuzi Movement and the Influence of T. S. Eliot on Badr Shakir al-Sayyab,” 671–8.

2. Cf. Huri, “‘The Queen who Serves the Slaves’,” 252–79; and Fakhreddine, Metapoesis in the Arabic Tradition, 14–56.

3. Said, Orientalism, 14.

4. Encyclopedia Britannica Online, s.v. “Timeline: Persian Gulf War.”

5. Frangieh, “Modern Arabic Poetry,” 245.

6. Ibid., 244.

7. Hassan, “Amin Saleh: Al-Mukhayila al-Sinama’iya.”

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H. M. Al-Rayes

H. M. Al-Rayes is a writer and translator from Bahrain. His current research focuses on aesthetics and metaphysics, particularly as they inform the historical development of modern Arabic poetry. Having earned his PhD in Philosophy from Stony Brook University, with a dissertation on Hegel’s methodology, he seeks to bring the legacy of German idealism and romanticism to bear on the processes of “cultural formation” (Bildung) and artistic production in the Arabic speaking world, highlighting the ways in which such processes seek to transform the coordinates of personhood. Besides his philosophical research, Al-Rayes publishes his poetry, fiction, and translations in a number of Arabic and English imprints.