Arab-American poetry is an especially rich, people-involved, passionate literature that has been spawned, at least until recently, in isolation from the American mainstream. This anthology reflects the current renaissance in the literature of what may be the latest ethnic community to assert itself. Twenty poets are represented in this collection, fifteen of them living, five of them women. They start with Ameen Rihani and Kahlil Gibran and include celebrated contemporaries who write in Arabic or English or both.

Arabic collection.

Introduction --Ammen Rihani (1876-1940) -- Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) -- Jamil Holway (1883-1946) -- Mikhael Naimy (1889-1988) -- Elia Abu Madi (Madey) (1890-1957) -- Etel Adnan (1925- ) -- D.H. Melhem (1926- ) -- Samuel Hazo (1928- ) -- Joseph Awad (1929- ) -- Eugene Paul Nassar (1935- ) -- H.S. (Sam) Hamod (1936- ) -- Jack Marshall (1937- ) -- Fawaz Turki (1940- ) -- Doris Safie (1940- ) -- Ben Bennani (1946- ) -- Sharif S. Elmusa (1947- ) -- Lawrence Joseph (1948- ) -- Gregory Orfalea (1949- ) -- Naomi Shihab Nye (1952- ) -- Elmaz Abinader (1954- ) -- Notes -- Acknowledgments and credits.

Aiso Library Poetry month selection Aiso Library Arab-American Heritage month selection