Book record
The Olive Trees’ Jazz
Samira Negrouche
Translated from French by Marilyn Hacker
The Olive Trees' Jazz, by Samira Negrouche, is a French poetry collection from Algeria, translated by Marilyn Hacker, published by Pleiades Press in None. It is a French-language Algerian collection by Samira Negrouche where Mediterranean landscape, improvisation, and historical listening move together. Hacker's translation lets the title's music matter: olive trees suggest rootedness, while jazz suggests motion, variation, and breath. 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 Algeria; it is an invitation to let poetry remain particular, difficult, and alive without asking it to behave like explanation.
- Publisher
- Pleiades Press
- Language
- French
- Country
- Algeria