Names of the Lion by Ibn Khalawayh and translated by David Larsen

This is poetry from Yemen.

Names of the Lion by Ibn Khalawayh translated by David Larsen is published by Wave Books. This is a Book originally written in Arabic. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781940696478E12.

Names of the Lion, by Ibn Khalawayh, is a Arabic poetry collection from Yemen, translated by David Larsen, published by Wave Books in 2017. It is a marvelous lexical project where the lion becomes not one animal but an entire field of Arabic naming, power, and imagination. 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.

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