Book record
Poems from above the hill
ʻĀshūr Ṭuwaybī
Translated from Arabic by Brenda Hillman, Diallah Haidar (with the author
Poems from above the hill, by ʻĀshūr Ṭuwaybī, is a Arabic poetry collection from Libya, translated by Brenda Hillman, Diallah Haidar (with the author, published by Parlor Press in 2011. It is a Libyan collection positioned from height and distance, where looking down does not mean detachment so much as a changed angle of witness. Rather than forcing the poems into a clean thesis, I would let the book remain somewhat unruly. Translation is useful exactly there, where the English line carries both arrival and residue. What matters is the reader's permission to sit with that residue until feeling arrives before explanation.
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Parlor Press
- Language
- Arabic
- Country
- Libya
- ISBN
- 9781602351608