School of Udhra

by Nathaniel Mackey

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School of Udhra takes its title from the Bedouin poetic tradition associated with the seventh-century Arab poet Djamil, the Udhrite school of poets who, "when loving die." Bedouin tradition, however, is only one of the strands of world revery these poems have recourse to. They obey a "bedouin" impulse of their own--fugitive, moving on, nomadic. Ogo the fox, the Dogon avatar of singleness and unrest, runs throughout, crossing and recrossing divided...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:087286278X

ISBN13:9780872862784

Release Date:January 1993

Publisher:City Lights Books

Length:144 Pages

Weight:0.35 lbs.

Dimensions:0.3" x 5.6" x 8.9"

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