?Shepherd of Solitude is the first English collection for Jordanian poet Amjad Nasser, translated and introduced by the foremost translator of contemporary Arabic poetry into English Khaled Mattawa, with the poems selected by poet and translator from the poets Arabic volumes over the years 1979 to 2004.

Shepherd of Solitude is Amjad Nasser''s first English collection, translated and introduced by the foremost translator of contemporary Arabic poetry, Khaled Mattawa. The poems have been selected from the poet''s Arabic volumes from 1979 to 2004.

"With his unusually wide and expressive range Amjad Nasser unites the varied facets of his experience in a discourse at once perceptive, critical, tender, and ironically comic." - Alfred Corn