Crossings by Habib Tengour and translated by Donald Revell

This is poetry from Algeria.

Crossings by Habib Tengour translated by Donald Revell is published by The Post-Apollo Press. This is a Book originally written in Arabic. This was published in 2013.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780942996807E12.

Crossings, by Habib Tengour, is a Arabic poetry collection from Algeria, translated by Donald Revell, published by The Post-Apollo Press in 2013. It is a book of passage and threshold, where Algerian and French imaginative inheritances meet without smoothing over the difficulty of movement. 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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