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Four Poems in Response to Four Arabic-Andalusian Poems

These four poems (numbers 2, 3, 4, and 6) taken from my book, Andalusia, arose immediately in my encounter with a group of remarkable early Arabic-Andalusian poems: some as specific responses to individual poems in that group, others as responses to the whole body of work. Startlingly, a poem of mine would occasionally come first, and I would later find its companion among the older poems. When I had completed the book I found that it comprised a lunar cycle. It was only later that I learned that it was the custom for Andalusian poets to gather and listen to a poem read aloud by one of them, while the other poets would, if something struck them in the poem, compose and read aloud what of their own might be generated. This spontaneity still happens in Flamenco dance. The group of early poems that touched me so deeply was discovered in 1928 by Emilio Garcia Gomez, a noted Spanish scholar of Arabic literature, who found, in