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A handful of blue earth / Vénus Khoury-Ghata ; translated from the French by Marilyn Hacker.

By: Khoury-Ghata, Vénus [author.]Contributor(s): Hacker, Marilyn, 1942- [translator.]Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2017Description: 1 online resource (viii, 56 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781786948045 (ebook)Uniform titles: Poems. Selections. English Contained works: Khoury-Ghata, Vénus. Livre des suppliques. Selections. English | Khoury-Ghata, Vénus. Dame de Syros. Selections. EnglishSubject(s): Marble sculpture, Greek -- PoetryAdditional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification: 841/.914 LOC classification: PQ2671.H6 | A2 2017Online resources: Click here to access online

Contents:

Preface -- The Lady of Syros -- From the book of petitions -- The mothers and the Mediterranean.

Summary: 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.

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Preface -- The Lady of Syros -- From the book of petitions -- The mothers and the Mediterranean.

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.

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