Badr Shākir al-Sayyāb, Fajr al-salām, 1st ed. (Ṭarābulus: Dār al-Kitāb al-ʿArabī; Bayrūt: Dār al-ʿAwdah, 1974)
This edition includes a Foreword by Nājī ʿAllūsh and Iḥsān ʿAbbās's chapter on Fajr al-salām from his biography about Sayyāb. The poem was originally published in a chapbook in 1950.
A.J. Arberry, Moorish Poetry (a translation of The pennants, an anthology compiled in 1243 by the Andalusian Ibn Saʻid) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1953)
The famed Iraqi painter and sculptor Jawād Salīm (d. 1961) designed the cover of the book.
"Cover design and image of the poet
drawn by
Master Artist Jawād Salīm"
From Songs of the Dead City by Buland al-Ḥaydarī. A quick translation:
Spring is gone
Its dust, gone... but tomorrow it will return
wearing a monk's new frock
to say, "Beware, I am Winter
Are you not afraid?
Are you not by trembling swayed?
It passes by me, and I pass by, dreaming of roses,
of my house bathed in candlelight
as shadows roam the wall in tranquil silence.
Its dust said, "I am Winter..."
And was it not like Spring?
"To my brother, Dr. Muḥsin..."
Inspired by the existential philosophy popular in Baghdad at the time, the collection opens with a long quote from Albert Camus, at the bottom of the page.
Aghānī al-madīnah al-mayyītah wa-qaṣāʻid ukhrā. Baghdād: Sharikāt al-Tijārah wa-l-Ṭibāʻah al-Maḥdūdah, 1957.
The sixth printing of al-Khandaq al-Ghamīq (originally published in 1958), from Dār al-Ādāb in Beirut, 1993.