James Montgomery on Listening to the ‘Antarah in His Bones
“It was very, very liberating to have gone through that experience—to be forced to be honest with myself.”
War Songs
James Montgomery on When ‘All Poets Were Warriors’
“In other words, it’s important to welcome and embrace the uncertainties rather than to dismiss them[.]”
ʿAntarah ibn Shaddād’s ‘War Songs’: ‘Tenderness Beneath the Violence’
” The push to translate his verse came when a production company phoned Philip Kennedy, the general editor of LAL, about an `Antarah movie starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.”