Zodiac of Echoes

by Khaled Mattawa

Jahan Ramazani has written that “These dazzling lyrics and sequences create one of the most compelling portraits we have of a mind, a sensibility, a language emerging from the hybridization of cultures.”

Genres: Poetry

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Khaled Mattawa currently teaches in the graduate creative writing program at the University of Michigan. He is the author of four books of poetry, the latest of which, Tocqueville, won the San Francisco Poetry Center’s Book Award. Mattawa has translated eleven volumes of contemporary Arabic poetry, including Adonis: Selected Poems and Concerto Al-Quds. His book Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet’s Art and His Nation was a finalist for the Pegasus Prize. A MacArthur fellow, Mattawa’s awards include an Academy of American Poets Fellowship and the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. He is the current Editor of Michigan Quarterly Review.

Reviews

[Adrianne]

Whitman meets Darwish who meets Neruda/Ritsos who meets Goldbarth who meets Alexie and the Koran...

[Gretchen · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed this collection, but I have to admit I found the premise of the title and the way it was organized, which Mattawa explains in the back, to be as intriguing as the poems.