Strangers in Light Coats: Selected Poems, 2014-2020
Ghassan Zaqtan
(Author)
Robin Moger
(Translator)
Description
A highly anticipated edition of Zaqtan's work from 2014 to 2020, all in English for the first time. Ghassan Zaqtan is not only one of the most significant Palestinian poets at work today, but one of the most important poets writing in Arabic. Since the publication of his first collection in 1980, Zaqtan's presence as a poet has evolved with the same branching and cumulative complexity as his poems--an invisible system of roots insistently pushing through the impacted soil of political and national narratives. Strangers in Light Coats is the third collection of Zaqtan's poetry to appear in English. It brings together poems written between 2014 and 2020 drawn from six volumes of poetry. Catching and holding the smallest particles of observation and experience in their gravity, the poems sprout and grow as though compelled, a trance of process in which fable, myth, and elegy take form only to fall apart and reconfigure, each line picked apart by the next and brought into the new body. Product Details
Price
$21.00
$19.53
Publisher
Seagull Books
Publish Date
November 05, 2023
Pages
96
Dimensions
6.06 X 9.21 X 0.39 inches | 0.4 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781803092386
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Ghassan Zaqtan is the author of numerous collections of poetry, a novel, and a play, The Narrow Sea, which was honored at the 1994 Cairo Festival. His verse collection Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me, translated by Fady Joudah, was awarded the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2013, and he was nominated for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in both 2014 and 2016. Robin Moger is a translator of Arabic prose and poetry based in Cape Town, South Africa.