Keynote
The new collection by the Lebanese poet Vénus Khoury-Ghata, the author of She Says, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Book Title
Nettles
Subtitle
Poems
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- “Strikes an eerie chord of truth.”—Jen Bervin, Bookforum
Body
In Nettles, Venus 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.
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Praise
- "For my lights, Hacker's translations of Khoury-Ghata. . . . are singular. They spirit the Lebanese-French poet's sensual and political mind from French into English with generosity and grace."—The Rumpus
- “[Khoury-Ghata’s] description of the war-ravaged earth as an abandoned wasteland where ghosts and disembodied shades wander is moving and affecting . . . we feel ourselves pulled forward, rising to meet the poem’s intensity.”—Women's Review of Books
