A Handful of Blue Earth by Vénus Khoury-Ghata and translated by Marilyn Hacker

This is poetry from Lebanon.

A Handful of Blue Earth by Vénus Khoury-Ghata translated by Marilyn Hacker is published by Liverpool University Press. This is a Book originally written in Arabic. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781786940117E12.

A Handful of Blue Earth, by Vénus Khoury-Ghata, is a Arabic poetry collection from Lebanon, translated by Marilyn Hacker, published by Liverpool University Press in 2017. It is a collection whose title gathers color, soil, and touch, making Khoury-Ghata’s lyric feel both bodily and elemental. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can begin working. Start with the title, the pressure of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. The value here is not just metadata or representation, but the chance to let one poet’s particular difficulty create its own weather.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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