Quartet of Joy

Poems by Muhammad Afifi Matar
Translated from the Arabic by Ferial Ghazoul and John Verlenden

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“The contemporary Egyptian poet Muhammad Afifi Matar is one of a handful of important writers whose work molds an ecstatic vision with a mastery of language and the Islamic tradition into an extraordinary idiom of burning intensity and hypnotic power. . . .”

—Edward W. Said