Book record
Names of the Lion
Ibn Khalawayh
Translated from Arabic by David Larsen
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.
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- Wave Books
- Language
- Arabic
- Country
- Yemen
- ISBN
- 9781940696478