
Arabian Satire: Poetry From 18th-Century Najd
Mae Ghalwash
Ḥmēdān al-Shwē’ir
NYU Press, 2020.
Once a woman has passed the mark of forty, / and her black tresses are streaked with grey, / The moment has come for you to dig a trench / six feet deep: throw her in with a rope around her knees!
—From “Mjalli, listen to me, this eloquent graybeard,” by Ḥmēdān al-Shwē‘ir
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