Home by Anthology and translated by Fadhil al-Azzawi, Iman Mersal, Ines Abassi, Samir Abu Hawwash

This is poetry from Egypt.

Home by Anthology translated by Fadhil al-Azzawi, Iman Mersal, Ines Abassi, Samir Abu Hawwash is published by Two Lines Press. This is a Book originally written in Arabic. This was published in 2020.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781949641073E12.

Home is an anthology translated by Fadhil al-Azzawi, Iman Mersal, Ines Abassi, Samir Abu Hawwash from Arabic, gathering Arabic-language poetry from Egypt through Egyptian Arabic poetry gathered through the intimate and enormous word home. Its value comes from chorus rather than singular authorship, so I would not treat it as one poet’s private weather. The better entrance is through exile, dwelling, memory, and the way a house can become country, body, or wound. Anthologies can become maps, but the best ones also leave room for wandering, disagreement, and surprise. Home belongs in the translated poetry library because it lets an anthology make several kinds of belonging audible at once. It gives a reader several doors into a tradition before asking them to choose only one.

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