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Nettles: Poems

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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 elsewhere

the 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, 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 by
Marilyn Hacker, Nettles gives American readers this utterly original, indispensable poetry.

Language: English

Pages: 120

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Graywolf Press

Release: January 08, 2008

ISBN: 1555974872

ISBN 13: 9781555974879

Nettles: Poems

4.1/5 ( ratings)

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 elsewhere

the 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, 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 by
Marilyn Hacker, Nettles gives American readers this utterly original, indispensable poetry.

Language: English

Pages: 120

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Graywolf Press

Release: January 08, 2008

ISBN: 1555974872

ISBN 13: 9781555974879

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