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Scorpionic sun
Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine
Translated from French by Conor Bracken
Scorpionic sun, by Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine and translated by Conor Bracken from French, brings Morocco French-language poetry into English through solar violence, scorpion energy, and Khaïr-Eddine's fierce North African modernism. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for scorpion, sun, venom, and the kind of lyric heat that does not ask permission, not as a fixed lesson about a country or period. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. Scorpionic sun belongs in the translated poetry library because it brings a jagged Moroccan avant-garde presence into English.
- Published
- 2019
- Publisher
- Cleveland State University
- Language
- French
- Country
- Morocco
- ISBN
- 9781880834381