All Faces but Mine by Samīḥ Qāsim and translated by Abdulwahid Lu’lu’a

This is poetry from Palestine.

All Faces but Mine by Samīḥ Qāsim translated by Abdulwahid Lu’lu’a is published by Syracuse University Press. This is a Book originally written in Arabic. This was published in 2015.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780815610526E12.

All Faces but Mine, by Samīḥ Qāsim, is a Arabic poetry collection from Palestine, translated by Abdulwahid Lu’lu’a, published by Syracuse University Press in 2015. It is a Palestinian collection organized around identity and estrangement, where the face becomes a public question rather than a private possession. Rather than forcing the poems into a clean thesis, I would let the book remain somewhat unruly. Translation is useful exactly there, where the English line carries both arrival and residue. What matters is the reader’s permission to sit with that residue until feeling arrives before explanation. That small hesitation matters, because poetry often begins where summary stops being enough.

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