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Nettles: Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781555974879)
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xThe new collection by the Lebanese poet Vénus Khoury-Ghata, the author of She Says, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
it could only have been elsewherethe sun's anger overturned the country
men who came from the wounded side of the river knocked
on our borders
I say men so as not to say locusts
--from "Nettles" In Nettles, Vénus Khoury-Ghata brings her impulses for lyric poetry and for stark narrative together into four enchanting sequences. Each confronts the realities of womanhood, immigration, and cultural conflict with an imagination and history born from both the Arabic and French languages. Masterfully translated by
Marilyn Hacker, Nettles gives American readers this utterly original, indispensable poetry.
Author: Vénus Khoury-Ghata
ISBN-10: 1555974872
ISBN-13: 9781555974879
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Language: English
Published: 01/08/2008
Pages: 120
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.35h x 5.83w x 0.69d
Review Citation(s):
Multicultural Review 06/01/2008 pg. 57
Library Journal 12/17/2007
By Vénus Khoury-Ghata
xVénus Khoury-Ghata is a Lebanese poet and novelist, the author of the poetry collection She Says and the novel A House at the Edge of Tears (both translated by Marilyn Hacker). She has been a resident of France since 1973.
Marilyn Hacker is a National Book Award-winning poet and the translator from French of several contemporary poets. She lives in Paris and New York, where she is a professor of English and Creative Writing at City College.Recently Viewed Products
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