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Strangers in Light Coats
Ghassan Zaqtan
Translated from Arabic by Robin Moger
Strangers in Light Coats, by Ghassan Zaqtan and translated by Robin Moger from Arabic, brings Arabic-language poetry from Palestine into English through Palestinian estrangement, light coats, and the unnerving social texture of people half-seen in passage. 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 strangers, coats, light, and the civic ghostliness of moving through a damaged world, not as a fixed lesson about Palestine. 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. Strangers in Light Coats belongs in the translated poetry library because it deepens Zaqtan's presence through displacement, perception, and haunted public space.
- Published
- 2023
- Publisher
- Seagull Books
- Language
- Arabic
- Country
- Palestine
- ISBN
- 9781803092386