Desert Voices by Moneera Al-Ghadeer and translated by Moneera al Ghadeer

This is poetry from Saudi Arabia.

Desert Voices by Moneera Al-Ghadeer translated by Moneera al Ghadeer is published by American University at Cairo. This is a Book originally written in Arabic. This was published in 2009.0 and has the ISBN of 9.789774162763E12.

Desert Voices, by Moneera Al-Ghadeer, is a Arabic poetry collection from Saudi Arabia, translated by Moneera al Ghadeer, published by American University at Cairo in 2009. It is a study and gathering of Saudi oral poetics that makes desert speech feel formal, social, intimate, and historically resonant. 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.