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Carousing with gazelles : homoerotic songs of Old Baghdad /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Abū Nuwās, approximately 756-approximately 810
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : IUniverse, Inc., 2005.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • In the bath-house
  • The lovers
  • Song of a gazelle's gift
  • First fuzz
  • The white gazelle
  • The love letter
  • I'll take the lads
  • The city life for me!
  • Pagan days
  • Love is fun
  • The divinity student
  • The fever and Abu Nuwas
  • You only encourage me!
  • In the schoolyard
  • The boy who wiped a kiss away
  • On the path of love
  • Rapture
  • Index of first lines
  • Notes and prose translations.