Poems from above the hill by ʻĀshūr Ṭuwaybī and translated by Brenda Hillman, Diallah Haidar (with the author

This is poetry from Libya.

Poems from above the hill by ʻĀshūr Ṭuwaybī translated by Brenda Hillman, Diallah Haidar (with the author is published by Parlor Press. This is a Book originally written in Arabic. This was published in 2011.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781602351608E12.

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.

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