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The new collection by Lebanese poet Vénus Khoury-Ghata, author of She Says, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
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Price: $15.00 USD
Poetry 978-1-55597-487-9, 120 pages, Paper
it could only have been elsewhere
the 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.
Praise for She Says:
“Hacker opens for English-language readers a veritable ‘suitcase filled with alphabets’—the perfectly blended French and Arabic imagination of Lebanese native and French emigrée writer Vénus Khoury-Ghata, who evokes in sinuous lines and multivalent imagery the richness of her experiences of a multi-ethnic traditional culture.” —Women’s Review of Books
“All readers interested in poetics…will rejoice in reading this staggeringly wonderful achievement.”—World Literature Today
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