Name: Nettles: Poems
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Author: Khoury-Ghata, Vénus ; Hacker, Marilyn
ISBN: 9781555974879

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Author

Vénus Khoury-Ghata

Translated by

Marilyn Hacker

Publisher

Graywolf Press

Year

2007

Language

English

Pages

120

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.2 x 14.8 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.36 kg.

ISBN

1555974872

ISBN13

9781555974879

Synopsis "Nettles: Poems"

The new collection by the Lebanese poet Vénus 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 countrymen who came from the wounded side of the river knockedon our bordersI say men so as not to say locusts --from Nettles In Nettles, Vénus 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 byMarilyn Hacker, Nettles gives American readers this utterly original, indispensable poetry.

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