Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper by Abdourahman A. Waberi and translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson

This is poetry from Djibouti.

Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper by Abdourahman A. Waberi translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson is published by Seagull Books, Limited. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2015.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780857422385E12.

Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper, translated from the French by Nancy Naomi Carlson, brings Abdourahman A. Waberi’s French-language work into English through Seagull Books, Limited. Published in 2015, it is best approached as a book of encounter rather than as a book to solve. Waberi’s long title opens like an invocation, joining nomadic movement, kinship, thirst, and cosmic scale. What I want from a translated poetry library is not only coverage, but temperament: the chance to meet a mind arranging the world differently. This volume does that work. It gives the reader enough ground to enter, then enough strangeness to keep the encounter from becoming merely informational.

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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