Where are the trees going? by Vénus Khoury-Ghata and translated by Marilyn Hacker

This is poetry from Lebanon.

Where are the trees going? by Vénus Khoury-Ghata translated by Marilyn Hacker is published by Curbstone Books. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2014.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780810130081E12.

Where are the trees going?, by Vénus Khoury-Ghata and translated by Marilyn Hacker from French, brings Lebanon French-language poetry into English through trees, disappearance, and Khoury-Ghata’s landscape of exile and ecological unease. 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 trees, departure, memory, and the question of where rooted things go when worlds are uprooted, 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. Where are the trees going? belongs in the translated poetry library because it deepens the shelf’s Lebanese French-language presence through landscape and loss.

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