Poetic Justice by Anthology and translated by Deborah Kapchan

This is poetry from Morocco.

Poetic Justice by Anthology translated by Deborah Kapchan is published by Center for Middle Eastern Studies. This is a Book originally written in Arabic, zajal, french, tamazight. This was published in 2019.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781477318492E12.

Poetic Justice is an anthology of Arabic, zajal, french, tamazight poetry, translated by Deborah Kapchan, published by Center for Middle Eastern Studies in 2019. It is an anthology of Moroccan performance and poetic traditions moving through Arabic, zajal, French, and Tamazight. As an anthology, its force is cultural as much as literary, showing how poetry lives in oral performance, social argument, memory, and the public body. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can be felt. Start with the pressure of the title, the texture of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. For this library, the book matters as more than a record of Morocco; it is an invitation to let poetry remain particular, difficult, and alive without asking it to behave like explanation.

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.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.