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The Present Tense Of The World Poems 20002009
Amina Saïd
Translated from Arabic by Marilyn Hacker
The Present Tense Of The World Poems 20002009, by Amina Saïd and translated by Marilyn Hacker from Arabic, brings Arabic-language poetry from Tunisia into English through Amina Said's Tunisian world-conscious lyric, present tense, and a decade's pressure gathered into simultaneity. 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 world, present, tense, and the attempt to hold time without making it obedient, not as a fixed lesson about Tunisia. 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. The Present Tense Of The World Poems 20002009 belongs in the translated poetry library because it adds Tunisian Arabic poetry through philosophical attention, breadth, and lyric poise.
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Black Widow Press
- Language
- Arabic
- Country
- Tunisia
- ISBN
- 9780984264070