{"title":"Maram Al Massri","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"red-cherry-on-a-white-tiled-floor-book-maram-al-massri-9781852246402","title":"Red Cherry on a White-Tiled Floor","description":"Maram al-Massri is an Arab love poet for the modern age. She writes short, seductive lyrics of astonishing clarity and piercing candour, stringing them together like pearls in a story chain. This first English translation of her work draws together poems from two sequences. Her red cherry is like red lips, a fruit or drop of blood offered for the reader to taste in the poems, but abandoned to the coldness of the white-tiled floor, the white paper of the page. Her lines are anguished but tightly reined, breaking completely with traditional Arab love poetry to draw on everyday language as well as images and metaphors remembered and reinvented from childhood and the Koran.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49569748779281,"sku":"GOR002199588","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52673440907537,"sku":"NLS9781852246402","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53046540468497,"sku":"GOR011403711","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1852246405.jpg?v=1751443949"},{"product_id":"red-cherry-on-a-white-tiled-floor-book-maram-al-massri-9781556592645","title":"A Red Cherry on a White-tiled Floor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Maram al-Massri comes as a shock. She writes about all the taboo subjects--physical passion, faithlessness, adultery, loneliness, despair--with candor and intensity that would mark her out even to Westerners.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e (London)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Her direct, unadorned writing, with its emphasis on the quotidian, and utilization of simple, almost child-like metaphors, contrast sharply with the conventions of traditional Arabic love poetry.\"--\u003ci\u003eBanipal: Magazine of Modern Arab Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"The spare emotive verse of \u003ci\u003eA Red Cherry on a White-tiled Floor\u003c\/i\u003e reflects definite bravery on the part of Syrian poet Maram Al-Massri.\"\u003cbr\u003e --\u003ci\u003eForeWord\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Sexy, mischievous and utterly delightful, (al-Massri's) poems are epigrammatic, seductively clever and at their best, unforgettable.\"--\u003ci\u003eSan Diego Union-Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Short, vivid, frankly erotic and remarkable for their emotional intelligence, Syrian poet Al-Massri's poems are as startling in English as they must have been to their first Arabic readers.\" --\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSyrian poet Maram al-Massri writes of love and the place of women in the modern age with striking candor and intensity. \"I am this mix between the submissive and rebellious woman,\" she writes, \"my freedom is so difficult and so desired.\" Her poems invoke a world where women are trapped and men flow freely, of the intoxicating power of seduction and the intensity of lust, of the security of relationships and muffled explosions of emotion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLike grains of salt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ethey shone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ethen melted.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThis is how they disappeared,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ethose men\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ewho did not love me.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAl-Massri herself straddles racial, religious, and cultural worlds. Born in Latakia, Syria, she moved to Paris in 1984 and has since refused to return: \"I divorced from my past, my religion, my land, and even from my language.\" Despite being fluent in French and English, she writes in Arabic, following traditional forms.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Red Cherry on a White-tiled Floor\u003c\/i\u003e is al-Massri's first book published in the United States, and appears in a bilingual Arabic-English edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49763642999057,"sku":"CIN1556592647G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51037600547089,"sku":"NIN9781556592645","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52472888557841,"sku":"NLS9781556592645","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1556592647.jpg?v=1751244879"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-maram-al-massri.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}