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The shutters
Ahmed Bouanani
Translated from French by Emma Ramadan
The shutters, by Ahmed Bouanani and translated by Emma Ramadan from French, brings Morocco French-language poetry into English through shutters, secrecy, and the half-closed architecture of memory. 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 windows, shadow, rooms, and the decision to reveal or withhold what has happened, 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. The shutters belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives Moroccan literature a cinematic and interior field of attention.
- Published
- 2018
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Language
- French
- Country
- Morocco
- ISBN
- 9780811227841