A Sleepless Eye by Ibrāhīm Kūnī and translated by Roger Allen

This is poetry from Libya.

A Sleepless Eye by Ibrāhīm Kūnī translated by Roger Allen is published by Syracuse University Press. This is a Book originally written in Arabic. This was published in 2014.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780815610342E12.

A Sleepless Eye, by Ibrāhīm Kūnī, is a Arabic poetry collection from Libya, translated by Roger Allen, published by Syracuse University Press in 2014. It is a book shaped by vigilance, wakefulness, and desert imagination, where the eye remains open because the world refuses to settle. 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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