Carousing with Gazelles presents accurate and
unbowdlerized translations of some of Abu Nuwass most
celebrated poemswhich have mostly
remained untranslated into
English due to the
pressures of pious Puritanism and homophobia. In fact, Abu Nuwas remains largely untranslated into ANY European language, for the same reason: he is, by European standards, shocking. More than that, there are many who consider him the greatest poet who ever wrote in Arabic..
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