Book record
A Map of Signs and Scents
Amjad Nasser
Translated from Arabic by Fady Joudah and Khaled Mattawa
A Map of Signs and Scents by Amjad Nasser, translated from Arabic by Fady Joudah and Khaled Mattawa and published by Curbstone Books, is a book rooted in Jordan. Nasser’s A Map of Signs and Scents, translated by Fady Joudah and Khaled Mattawa, offers a title that already feels like a poetics of orientation. Signs give direction; scents give memory, body, and the animal intelligence of place. As Arabic poetry from Jordan in English, the book likely moves through travel, exile, and sensuous attention without treating geography as mere background. I would read it for how the poem maps what official maps cannot hold.
- Publisher
- Curbstone Books
- Language
- Arabic
- Country
- Jordan