Tales of a severed head by Rachida Madani and translated by Marilyn Hacker

This is poetry from Morocco.

Tales of a severed head by Rachida Madani translated by Marilyn Hacker is published by Yale University Press. This is a Book originally written in Arabic. This was published in 2012.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780300176285E12.

Tales of a severed head, by Rachida Madani, is a Arabic poetry collection from Morocco, translated by Marilyn Hacker, published by Yale University Press in 2012. It is a fierce Moroccan collection whose title announces fable, violence, and dismembered speech before the reader has even entered the first poem. 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. That small hesitation matters, because poetry often begins where summary stops being enough.

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