Revolution goes through walls by Safaa Fathy and translated by Pierre Joris

This is poetry from Egypt.

Revolution goes through walls by Safaa Fathy translated by Pierre Joris is published by SplitLevel Texts. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2018.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780999570104E12.

Revolution Goes Through Walls, by Safaa Fathy and translated by Pierre Joris, has a title that understands revolution as both political event and physical impossibility. Walls divide, imprison, protect, and mark ownership; a revolution that goes through them is not merely loud, but permeating. Fathy, an Egyptian writer working in French, brings together poetry, thought, and political consciousness, while Joris is a translator deeply attuned to experimental and transnational poetics. I would read this book for its insistence that the lyric can pass through structures that were designed to stop movement. It sounds like a work of threshold, uprising, and breath under pressure, less interested in slogans than in the strange life of resistance moving through language.

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