This is poetry from Morocco.
and the spring is veiled over by Mohamed Loakira translated by Peter Thompson is published by Dialogos / Lavender Ink. This is a Book originally written in Arabic. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781944884352E12.
and the spring is veiled over, by Mohamed Loakira, is a Arabic poetry collection from Morocco, translated by Peter Thompson, published by Dialogos / Lavender Ink in 2017. It is a Moroccan collection where renewal is present but obscured, with spring treated as both season and withheld promise. 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.
Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.
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