TY  - BOOK
AU  - Khoury-Ghata,Vénus
AU  - Hacker,Marilyn
AU  - Khoury-Ghata,Vénus
AU  - Khoury-Ghata,Vénus
TI  - A handful of blue earth
SN  - 9781786948045 (ebook)
AV  - PQ2671.H6 A2 2017
U1  - 841/.914 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Liverpool
PB  - Liverpool University Press
KW  - Marble sculpture, Greek
KW  - Poetry
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Feb 2018); Preface -- The Lady of Syros -- From the book of petitions -- The mothers and the Mediterranean
N2  - In her preface the distinguished American poet and translator Marilyn Hacker describes the poems included here as 'exploded narratives, re-assembled in a mosaic or labyrinth in which the reader, like Ariadne, finds a connecting thread'. Khoury-Ghata's book, published in her eighty-first year, is testimony to this Lebanese poet's enduring brilliance. Earlier translations by Hacker were described by Alica Ostriker as emerging 'from the embers of loss and death, from childhood and the moon, from villages and cemeteries and forests, geography and God'. In two moving sequences, we find Khoury-Ghata's voice retuning to familiar themes of death, intimacy, enforced silence and the surreal horror of war. Rendered faithfully and exquisitely by Hacker's concise eye, the poems mark an important contribution to world poetry in translation
UR  - https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781786948045/type/BOOK
ER  -