Chaos, Crossing |
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Author:
| Elias, Olivia |
Contribution by:
| Darwish, Najwan |
Foreword by:
| Darwish, Najwan |
Translator:
| Abu-Zeid, Kareem James |
Translated with commentary by:
| Abu-Zeid, Kareem James |
ISBN: | 978-1-954218-07-9 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2022 |
Publisher: | World Poetry Books
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $20.00 |
Book Description:
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In her English-language debut, acclaimed French-language poet of the Palestinian diaspora Olivia Elias probes deeply into the upheavals of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Chaos, Crossing -- translated by award-winning translator Kareem James Abu-Zeid -- is a powerful chronicle of uprootedness, of times marked by inequality, injustice, and disconnection. These poems seek the calm at the center of the storm, the still point amidst the chaos. || "Each of Olivia Elias's...
More DescriptionIn her English-language debut, acclaimed French-language poet of the Palestinian diaspora Olivia Elias probes deeply into the upheavals of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Chaos, Crossing -- translated by award-winning translator Kareem James Abu-Zeid -- is a powerful chronicle of uprootedness, of times marked by inequality, injustice, and disconnection. These poems seek the calm at the center of the storm, the still point amidst the chaos. || "Each of Olivia Elias's powerful poems sparkles with the unexpected: exile puts down roots in time, healing is a Ferris wheel, and loss a slough that leads to language. Kareem James Abu-Zeid's translations are delicate and wonderful. This book is a joy to read." --JENNIFER CROFT || "Olivia Elias, child of the Nakba, is a world citizen, resident at one time or another of Lebanon, Canada, France. But as a poet, she remains a Palestinian, inhabited by the landscape, the language, creating lyrics that speak the sorrow of displacement, and a memory vaster and deeper than any one woman's, with a restraint that dignifies both grief and rage." --MARILYN HACKER || "Elias, a Palestinian exile, creates beauty from damage, playing with the tension between chaos and innocence. This book is a fierce and tender odyssey around the world and deep inside the human psyche." --SYLVIE BAUMGARTEL || "The times and places in Chaos, Crossing have searching questions for those who stop there, and bones to pick from snapping jaws, everywhere state terror goes unveneered and war is occupation, in island camps and shipping lanes of forcible displacement, a ripple of cosmic fury in every poem -- enactments of refusal by a 'citizen-scribe of occupied Palestine and the world' that are poems to reread and inhabit, belonging everywhere." --DAVID LARSEN || "Abu-Zeid's translation conveys Elias's tension and urgency, asking us to stop at each word and to approach one of her central questions: is it possible that too much rage kills rage?" --AHMAD ALMALLAH || Middle East Studies. Palestine Studies. Women's Studies. French Literature. Translation.