Nettles: Poems
Vénus Khoury-Ghata
(Author)
Marilyn Hacker
(Translator)
Description
The new collection by the Lebanese poet V nus 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, V nus 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.
Product Details
Price
$15.00
$13.95
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Publish Date
January 08, 2008
Pages
219
Dimensions
5.83 X 8.35 X 0.69 inches | 0.8 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781555974879
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About the Author
Vénus 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.
Reviews
"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." --The Women's Review of Books on She Says
