Ibn Khalawayh

Names of the Lion

Sprache: Englisch.
kartoniert , 72 Seiten
ISBN 194069647X
EAN 9781940696478
Veröffentlicht Mai 2017
Verlag/Hersteller Wave Books
Übersetzer Übersetzt von David Larsen
18,00 inkl. MwSt.
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Beschreibung

Inspiring horror, laughter, and awe, a catalog of nearly 400 Arabic epithets for lions. A fascinating work of lexicographical scholarship.

Portrait

David Larsen is a U. S. poet and literary translator of Classical Arabic texts. His graduate studies in Comparative Literature ran parallel to years of activity in the San Francisco Bay Area’s experimental poetry community, culminating in a verse collection The Thorn (Cambridge, MA: Faux Press, 2005) and two and a half years as curator of the New Yipes video and poetry series. During the 2011 uprising in Egypt he was a Fulbright Scholar based in Cairo. David Larsen has taught at U. C. Berkeley, Yale and Ohio State, and is currently a Clinical Professor of Liberal Studies at NYU.