Tree Whose Name I Don’t Know by Golan Haji and translated by Stephen Watts

This is poetry from Syria.

Tree Whose Name I Don’t Know by Golan Haji translated by Stephen Watts is published by Midsummer Night’s Press, A. This is a Book originally written in Arabic. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781938334276E12.

Tree Whose Name I Don’t Know, by Golan Haji, is a Arabic poetry collection from Syria, translated by Stephen Watts, published by Midsummer Night’s Press, A in 2017. It is a Syrian collection whose title opens into anonymity, botany, and exile, asking what survives when even naming becomes unstable. 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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