Monkey at the Window by Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi and translated by Sarah Maguire, Mark Ford

This is poetry from Sudan.

Monkey at the Window by Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi translated by Sarah Maguire, Mark Ford is published by Bloodaxe Books. This is a Book originally written in Arabic. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781780372723E12.

Monkey at the Window, by Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi and translated by Sarah Maguire, Mark Ford from Arabic, brings Arabic-language poetry from Sudan into English through Sudanese window lyric, animal attention, and Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi’s surreal public looking. 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 monkey, window, city, and the strange theater that begins when the observer is also being watched, not as a fixed lesson about Sudan. 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. Monkey at the Window belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives Sudanese poetry a vivid, image-rich entry point full of wit and unease.

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.