Book record
Universe, All at Once
Salim Barakat
Translated from Arabic by Huda J. Fakhreddine
Universe, All at Once, by Salim Barakat and translated by Huda J. Fakhreddine from Arabic, brings Arabic-language poetry from Syria into English through Barakat's universe-scale imagination, Syrian-Kurdish density, and the thrilling refusal to take things one at a time. 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 universe, abundance, syntax, and the sensation of language arriving in a storm rather than a line, not as a fixed lesson about Syria. 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. Universe, All at Once belongs in the translated poetry library because it extends the Arabic shelf toward maximalist thought, animal force, and visionary excess.
- Published
- 2024
- Publisher
- Seagull Books
- Language
- Arabic
- Country
- Syria
- ISBN
- 9781803094038