{"product_id":"songs-of-an-eastern-humanist-collected-poems-9781916809970","title":"Songs of an Eastern Humanist: Collected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Considering the emphasis in Said's critical work on space and place and the political importance of geography, it is less surprising to see the luxuriant evocation of a specific topography of dusty roads, grottos, plump figtrees, desert flowers, muddy clods, and the \"beckoning hands of lambent hills\". Most revealing of all, perhaps, is the poems' tendency to see the world through musical form. Musical imagery is everywhere, testifying to how much of Said's mind in an introspective mood was immersed in the sounds, forms, and fables of Western classical music.\"--Timothy Brennan, from the book's Introduction \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEdward Said was renowned for the breadth, erudition, and humanity of his scholarly and political writing. His ground-breaking studies of literature and culture threw a dazzling new light on the ways in which non-Western peoples have been misrepresented over the course of the centuries, and he was among the world's most prominent voices in denouncing the modern-day injustices of Western foreign policy. This volume collects all of his never-before-published poems, offering insight into the personality of the author of \u003ci\u003eOrientalism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe World, the Text and the Critic\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCulture \u0026amp; Imperialism\u003c\/i\u003e \"to a degree hidden in those works themselves\". \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe nineteen works collected in \u003ci\u003eSongs of an Eastern Humanist\u003c\/i\u003e canvass a variety of poetic forms, but they are all shot through with Said's capacious intellect and passionate sensibility. They are also remarkable achievements of poetic craft. Said's poetry alternates with unerring judgment between wit and pathos, between sublimely elevated and disarmingly quotidian registers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis individual lines of verse are exquisitely constructed and richly elusive, while his poems as a whole are at once sweeping in their vision and keenly evocative of sensory experience. Their publication amounts to a major literary event, marking twenty years since the great public intellectual's passing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimothy Brennan (Edited by) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Timothy Brennan is a cultural critic and biographer. He is Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the University of Minnesota and the author of, most recently, \u003ci\u003eSecular Devotion: Afro-Latin Music\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eImperial Jazz, Borrowed Light: Vico, Hegel, and the Colonies\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePlaces of Mind: A Life of Edward Said\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Eris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50613326119186,"sku":"9781916809970","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_73b2a4f2-9386-44ff-969f-7966efe68bfe.jpg?v=1732395880","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/songs-of-an-eastern-humanist-collected-poems-9781916809970","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}