Shepherd of Solitude – Selected Poems

Shepherd of Solitude. is Amjad Nasser''s first English collection, translated and introduced by the foremost translator of contemporary Arabic poetry, Khaled Mattawa. The poems have been selected from the poet''s Arabic volumes from 1979 to 2004. "With his unusually wide and expressive range Amjad Nasser unites the varied facets of his experience in a discourse at once perceptive, critical, tender, and ironically comic. " - Alfred Corn.