Songs of an Eastern Humanist
By Edward Said
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Edward 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 Orientalism, The World, the Text and the Critic, and Culture & Imperialism "to a degree hidden in those works themselves".
The nineteen works collected in Songs of an Eastern Humanist 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.
His 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.
Edward Said
Edward Said was one of the most influential thinkers of the last hundred years. A Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, he wrote brilliantly on topics as wide-ranging as literature, secularism, classical music, and the politics of the Middle East. Said’s 1978 study Orientalism remains one of the central texts of postcolonial theory. Among other of his highly acclaimed works are The Question of Palestine, Culture and Imperialism, Representations of the Intellectual, and Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain.
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