Where Are the Trees Going? by Khoury-Ghata, Venus

Where Are the Trees Going? (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780810130081)

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Where Are the Trees Going? by Khoury-Ghata, Venus

Where Are the Trees Going?

$19.95
Where Are the Trees Going? by Khoury-Ghata, Venus

Where Are the Trees Going?

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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Longlist finalist, 2015 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation

Bringing the work of acclaimed poet Venus Khoury-Ghata to a new generation of anglophone readers, renowned award-winning poet and translator Marilyn Hacker has rendered Khoury-Gata's highly praised collection Où vont les arbres? into unforgettable English verse. In it, Khoury-Ghata takes on perennial themes of womanhood, immigration, and cultural conflict. Characters take root in her memory as weathered trees and garden plants, lending grit and body to the imaginative collection. As bracing as the turn of seasons, Where Are the Trees Going? highlights a poet writing with renewed urgency and maturity.

Khoury-Ghata's collection has been translated into fifteen languages. In this special edition, Paris-resident Hacker has also included selections from Khoury-Ghata's short fiction collection La maison aux orties (The House of Nettles). The resulting interplay illuminates the poet's contrasting and complementary drives toward surreal lyricism and stark narrative exposition.

Author: Venus Khoury-Ghata
ISBN-10: 0810130084
ISBN-13: 9780810130081
Publisher: Curbstone Press
Language: English
Published: 10/30/2014
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.49h x 6.34w x 0.37d
Award: Best Translated Book Award - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 09/15/2014 pg. 83
By Venus Khoury-Ghata
By Venus Khoury-Ghata
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Vénus Khoury-Ghata is a Lebanese poet and novelist, resident in France since 1973, author of twenty-four novels and twenty collections of poems, translated into German, Arabic, Swedish, and other languages. Her most recent collection to appear in English, Nettles (2008), was also translated by Marilyn Hacker. Her awards include the Goncourt Prize for Poetry for Où vont les arbres. She is an Officier of the French Legion of Honor.

Marilyn Hacker is the author of twelve collections of poems and twenty translations of books of poems from the French. She received the PEN Voelcker Award for her own work in 2010, and the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for King of a Hundred Horsemen by Marie Étienne in 2009.

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