Where Are the Trees Going? |
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| Author:
| Khoury-Ghata, Venus |
| Translator:
| Hacker, Marilyn |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8101-3008-1 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2014 |
| Publisher: | Northwestern University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $19.95 |
Book Description:
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Where Are the Trees Going? brings together some of the latest work of the poet and novelist Venus Khoury-Ghata in a manner that showcases her central concerns in a wholly novel and provocative format. Renowned translator Marilyn Hacker interleaves a full translation of Khoury-Ghata's volume of poetry Où vont les arbres.with prose from La maison aux orties. The resulting interplay illuminates the poet's contrasting and complementary drives...
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Where Are the Trees Going? brings together some of the latest work of the poet and novelist Venus Khoury-Ghata in a manner that showcases her central concerns in a wholly novel and provocative format. Renowned translator Marilyn Hacker interleaves a full translation of Khoury-Ghata's volume of poetry Où vont les arbres.with prose from La maison aux orties. The resulting interplay illuminates the poet's contrasting and complementary drives toward surreal lyricism and stark narrative exposition.