She Says: Bilingual Edition (French Edition)

She Says: Bilingual Edition (French Edition)

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<p><b>Award-winning American poet Marilyn Hacker offers the brilliance of Lebanese poet Vénus Khoury-Ghata in an exquisite translation</b></p><p><i>She says</i><br><i>the earth is so vast one can't help but be lost like water from a broken jug</i><br><i>There is no fortress against the wind</i><br><i>the winter wanderer must count on the compassion of walls</i>-from "She Says"</p><p>Translated by celebrated American poet Marilyn Hacker, Vénus Khoury-Ghata's <i>She Says </i>explores the mythic and confessional attractions and repulsions of the French and Arabic imaginations with poems that open like "a suitcase filled with alphabets." Sex, barrenness, grief, and death-the backdrop of a war-ravaged country-are always at the edges, made increasingly urgent by lines often jagged and spare, their music unhaltered. Khoury-Ghata is a vital voice in both her native and adopted languages and we are pleased to present this important collection in English.</p>