for an earthy paradise have not materialized.” Al-Bayati's communist ideology prompted him to make close friendship with the Turkish poet and playwright Nazim Hikmat (1902-1963). They met in Moscow, as both of them were in exile in the Soviet Union. He was also under the influence of other leftist poets and men of letters like the Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930), the French surrealist poet Louis Aragon (1897-1982), the Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) and the Chilean poet and politician Pablo Neruda (1904-1973). Works Original volumes Mala'ika wa shayatin (Angels and Devils), 1950 Abariq muhashshama, 1954 Risala ila Hazim Hikmet wa quas'aid ukhra, 1956 Al-Majd li al-atfal wa al-zaytun, 1956 Ash'ar fi al-manfa, 1957 Ishrun qasida min Berlin, 1959 Kalimat la tamut, 1960 Muhakama fi Nisabur, 1963 Al-Nar wa al-kalimat, 1964 Sifr al-faqr wa al-thawra, 1965 Alladhi ya'ti wa laya'ti, 1966 Al Mawt fi al Hayat, 1968 Tajribati al-shi'riyya, 1968 'Ulyun al-kilab al-mayyita, 1969 Buka'iyya ila shams haziran wa al-murtaziqa, 1969 Al Kitaba al Teen, 1970 Yawmiyyat siyasi muhtarif, 1970 Qasaid hubb 'ala bawwabat al-'alam al-sab, 1971 Sira dhatiyya li sariq al-nar, 1974 Kitab al-bahr, 1974 Qamar Shiraz, 1976 Mamlakat al-sunbula, 1979 Sawt al-sanawat al-daw'iyya, 1979 Bustan 'A'isha, 1989 Al-Bahr Ba'id, Asma'uh Yatanahhud (The Sea is Distant, I Hear It Sighing), 1998 Translated volumes Lilies and Death, 1972 (trans. Mohammed B. Alwan) The Singer and the Moon, 1976 (trans. Abdullah al-Udhari) Eye of the Sun, 1978 Love Under Rain (Al-hubb tahta al-matar), 1985 (transl. Desmond Stewart and George Masri) Love, Death, and Exile, 1990 (trans. Bassam K. Frangieh) Anthologies with only works by Abd al-Wahhab Al-Bayati Poet of Iraq: Abdul Wahab al-Bayati. An introductory essay with translations by Desmond Stewart, 1976 Abdul Wahab al-Bayati, 1979 (a short introduction and four poems, trans. Desmond Stewart and George Masri) Anthologies with works by Abd al-Wahhab Al-Bayati and other poets Abdullah al-Udhari, ed. and trans. Modern Poetry of the Arab World. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1986. An Apology for a Short Speech The Arab Refugee The Fugitive Hamlet Profile of the Lover of the Great Bear To Ernest Hemingway Salma Khadra Jayyusi, ed. Modern Arabic Poetry: An Anthology. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987 The Birth of Aisha and Her Death Eligy for Aisha The Impossible Luzumiyya Simawe, Saadi ed. Iraqi Poetry Today, London: King's College, London, 2003 The Dragon An Elegy to Aisha I am Born and I Burn in