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Issue Details: First known date: 2004... 2004 Attempt to Connect Two Shores with Sound
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Translated from the original Arabic.
Notes:
This translation also appears in full in Burt's article 'Wadi' Sa'adah's World of Loss'
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    y separately published work icon Mood Lightning : An Anthology Ten Ch'in U (editor), Pennant Hills : Imaginal Press , 2004 Z1189653 2004 anthology poetry prose The book encapsulates the moods and quests of eighty seven contributors most of whom are from Australia; the rest are from the United Kingdom, Germany, Malaysia, Netherlands and the United States. The anthology has been organised along roughly thematic lines with nine sections each titled to highlight the role of nature and the spiritual in nature. There are new poems by Robert Adamson as well as previously unpublished poets, fragments of plays by Polish actor/director Bogdan Koca, commentary on the body and consciousness by two psychologists (noted writer on the soul Robert Sardello and Canberra based Steven Guth), translations from the Arabic of celebrated Lebanese poet Wadih Sa'adeh, translations from the Persian, Chinese, German and French and funny one-liners not found in fortune cookies. Source (The author). Pennant Hills : Imaginal Press , 2004 pg. 59-67

Works about this Work

Wadi' Sa'adah's World of Loss Connecting Two Shores with Sound: Sa`ˆadeh’s World of Loss Clarissa C. Burt , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Edebiyat : Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures , vol. 14 no. 1-2 2003; (p. 133-147) Wadih Sa'adeh's Poetry Site 2006;
The article analyses Sa`adah's poetry in terms of an 'Arabic post-modern processing of the universal problem of death and mourning.'
Wadi' Sa'adah's World of Loss Connecting Two Shores with Sound: Sa`ˆadeh’s World of Loss Clarissa C. Burt , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Edebiyat : Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures , vol. 14 no. 1-2 2003; (p. 133-147) Wadih Sa'adeh's Poetry Site 2006;
The article analyses Sa`adah's poetry in terms of an 'Arabic post-modern processing of the universal problem of death and mourning.'
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