Naming the Dawn by Abdourahman A. Waberi and translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson

This is poetry from Djibouti.

Naming the Dawn by Abdourahman A. Waberi translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson is published by Seagull Books. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2018.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780857425461E12.

Naming the Dawn, translated from the French by Nancy Naomi Carlson, brings Abdourahman A. Waberi’s French-language work into English through Seagull Books. Published in 2018, it is best approached as a book of encounter rather than as a book to solve. Waberi’s title gives the poems a task both ancient and immediate: to name light before the day has fully justified itself. The pleasure of a book like this is the permission it gives to move slowly. A reader does not have to master every reference to feel the work at hand. Sometimes the task is simply to notice how a sentence leans, how an image opens, how a voice from Djibouti changes the room around English.

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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