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His experience of the joys of rural settings and vistas is as visceral as it is earnest. His own poetry of which he has published four collections is rife with tremulous descriptions of the natural world, especially the desert and its human and animal inhabitants. In his deep fascination with present-day and historical Bedouin nomads, he reveals a very modern, urban longing for pastoral life.
The Dune’s Twisted Edge
He seeks a kind of communion with the eternal, timeworn patterns of human movement and contemplation. In the Greco-Roman town of Gadara in the Galilee, he brings his Arab guide into the ruins of a bathhouse to examine a verse by the Byzantine empress Eudocia cut into a wall. He marvels elsewhere at the Greek inscription left by a Muslim caliph. For Levin, texts are not simply those preserved in archives and libraries and handed down through the generations; in the most basic way, texts live in the world. Another refrain of this collection are the verses of the pre-Islamic desert poets of Arabia, the writers of qasida or lyric poetry.
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Most notable among these poets is the sixth-century AD Imru Al Qays, whose work has been translated and to whom he frequently refers. Its heroes love, conquer, and mourn across the dunes.
Imru Al Qays laments:. Staring at ashes and the remains of tents, the poet recalls his short-lived tryst. The pre-Islamic poets did not imagine the desert as a trackless expanse, its dunes sweeping undifferentiated to the horizon.
Even in the desert, the sea remained an integral part of the Levantine imagination. Marcia Clark began practicing law as a criminal defense attorney. She became a prosecutor in the L.
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