The Book of Rain
Zayd, al-Ansari, Said (Author)
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£17.99
"Abu Zayd al-Ansari's The Book of Rain-originally composed in ninth-century Basra and conscientiously shepherded into English this year by David Larsen with an expert hand-bowled me over for its fine-grained attunement to nuances of cloud-shape, river-flow, and thunder-rumble."-Alex Tan, Words Without BordersPrevious praise for Names of the Lion:"In this remarkable work of translation and discovery David Larsen makes available to us what we can now read as a powerful old/new act of poetic naming. Not composed as poetry in the familiar sense, Ibn Khalawayh's Names of the Lion comes alive today ...
ISBN (SKU)
9798891060364
Pages
200
Imprint
Wave Books
Published
20, November, 2025
Genres
Poetry & Drama
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