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  • POEMS OF WINE & REVELRY
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    POEMS OF WINE & REVELRY
    COLVILLE
    First published in 2005. Arabic literature has a distinguished tradition of bacchanals but none are so consistently entertaining or explicit or iconoclastic as those of Abu Nuwas al_hasan ibn Hani al-Hakami (c. 756-c.815), the 'bad boy' of Abbasid poetry. In his khamriyyat, Abu Nuwas offers a glimpse of the hedonistic and dissipated world he inhabited: the world of Baghdad high...

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  • SOBRIETY & MIRTH
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    SOBRIETY & MIRTH
    COLVILLE
    First Published in 2001. These extremely entertaining shorter pieces by the leader of Islamic literary culture aim to instruct us on matters of moral and social concern. They cover such uses as Chanteuses, The Pleasure of Girls and Boys, This Life and the Life to come, Drink and Drinkers, Envy, and the Superiority of the Front to the Back. Always taking a moral tone, Jahiz seld...

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  • ELEGIES FOR UNCANNY GIRLS
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    ELEGIES FOR UNCANNY GIRLS
    JENNIFER COLVILLE
    The ordinary and the extraordinary merge in the strange and complex lives of young women in this "frequently luminous" debut short story collection ( Kirkus Reviews).   Unsettling and perceptive, this debut story collection challenges our notion of American girlhood in all its delusions, conflicting messages, and treacherous terrain. Alternately wide-eyed, wise, and mysterious,...

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