Copyright - Lighthouse for the Drowning

Fakhreddine

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Cover Art: Sunset Over Beirut by Ali Fakhreddine

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Fakhr al-Dein, Jawdat author. | Fakhreddine, Huda J. translator. | Iwen, Jayson, 1974– translator. | Fakhreddine, Jawdat. Poems. Selections. English. | Fakhreddine, Jawdat. Poems. Selections.

Title: Lighthouse for the drowning : poems / by Jawdat Fakhreddine ; translated from the Arabic by Huda Fakhreddine and Jayson Iwen.

Description: First edition. | Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, Ltd., 2017. | In English and Arabic. | Originally published in 1996 under the title: Manearah lil-ghareiq.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016049058 | ISBN 9781942683391 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Classification: LCC PJ7824.A363 A2 2017 | DDC 892.7/16—dc23 LC record

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