Book record
Dictionary of Midnight
Abdulla Pashew
Translated from Kurdish by Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse, William T. Vollmann
Dictionary of Midnight, by Abdulla Pashew and translated by Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse, William T. Vollmann from Kurdish, brings Kurdish-language poetry from Iraq into English through Kurdish midnight, lexical darkness, and Abdulla Pashew's sense of language as a place where a people keep surviving. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for midnight, dictionary, exile, and the words one needs when daylight has failed, not as a fixed lesson about Iraq. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. Dictionary of Midnight belongs in the translated poetry library because it brings Kurdish poetry into the library as political memory, lyric endurance, and linguistic shelter.
- Published
- 2018
- Publisher
- HewesHeiser
- Language
- Kurdish
- Country
- Iraq
- ISBN
- 9781944700805