Miracle Maker: The Selected Poems of Fadhil Al-Azzawi Book

	Introduction: The Making of a Miracle Maker	9
	The Clown and the Dancer	21
	Romeo in Old Age	22
	Prisoner No. 907	23
	The Buddhist's Masks	24
	Mr. Edouard Luqa's Dilemma	26
	A Bell	28
	The Teachings of F. Al-Azzawi	29
	Song of the Dead Arab	39
	The Murdered	40
	The Pedestrian	41
	Sometimes We are Born	42
	The Opening	45
	The Valley of the Beasts	46
	Write Your Name on Every Pain	47
	Man Is Nothing but a Woodsman in the Forest	48
	Abdullah Begs from the Sea	49
	The Key	50
	The Lover	51
	In the Village of Children	52
	A Donkey at a Mill	53
	An Appointment in Samarra	54
	The Room	55
	In Prison	56
	Signs	57
	The Dragon's Mountain	58
	The Life and Times of the Dragon	59
	So That We Do Not Forget	60
	Happiness	61
	Epilogue	62
	Defiance	67
	The Rope	68
	Brotherhood	69
	Cockroach	70
	The Three Kings	71
	The Last Iraq	72
	Memory	73
	In the Court of Honor	77
	Vision on a Bus	78
	A Man in Memory	79
	Song of Myself	82
	Good Morning, God	85
	The Prodigal Son Returns	87
	No Matter How Far	92
	God and the Devil	94
	Elegy for the Living	95
	A Movie in a Train Station	105
	From an Open Window unto a Dark Street	106
	Toasts	107
	Nothing Happens in My Dreams Anymore	108
	The Book of Lies	109
	Night Soldiers	111
	The Russian Elegy	112
	On the Griffon Farm	114
	The Magi in Our House	115
	The IF Poem	117
	The Widow on Her Balcony	118
	Abraham in the Garden of Fire	119
	The Lion and the Apostle	123
	Newton's Apple	124
	Noah After the Flood	125
	On Half-Deserted Streets with Prufrock	126
	The Surprise	128
	Lenin Platz in Berlin	129
	Toasting Betrayed Revolutions	130
	Before the Sky Had a Name	132
	Miracle Maker	134
	Feast in Candlelight	135
	Notes on the Poems	137
	Acknowledgments	139
	About the Author	141
	About the Translator	143