A Demon Spirit

Verses on hunter and quarry from a giant of Arabic poetry Arguably the greatest poet of the Arabic language, Abū Nuwās was renowned for his innovations in poetic genre and style and was a larger-than-life figure even among his contemporaries in Abbasid Baghdad. In A Demon Spirit , prize-winning translator and scholar James E. Montgomery renders this literary giant’s hunting poetry, or ṭardiyyāt , translated for the first time in vivid English. Abū Nuwās’s poems radiate brilliance, ingenuity, and