Habibi, the love poems of the Moroccan poet Alim Maghrebi, is the latest in a series of David Solway's poetic "translations", dating from Andreas Karavis' Saracen Island and including Nesmine Rifat's Pallikari, Rhys Savarin's Reaching for Clear, Bartholomew the Englishman's The Properties of Things, and Dov Ben-Zamir'sNew Wine, Old Bottles, the latter still in manuscript. These are what Solway calls his "ostensibles", poetic voices and artifacts which he regards as constituting an extended trope or metaphor of the desire for transformation.
- ISBN10 1550716158
- ISBN13 9781550716153
- Publish Date 1 October 2012
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 June 2021
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint Guernica Editions,Canada
- Format Paperback
- Pages 76
- Language English