Nettles: Poems - Softcover

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Praise for "She Says":
" Hacker opens for English-language readers a veritable ' suitcase filled with alphabets' -- the perfectly blended French and Arabic imagination of Lebanese native and French emigre e writer Ve nus Khoury-Ghata, who evokes in sinuous lines and multivalent imagery the richness of her experiences of a multi-ethnic
traditional culture." -- "The Women' s Review of Books"

Praise for "She Says":
"Hacker opens for English-language readers a veritable 'suitcase filled with alphabets'--the perfectly blended French and Arabic imagination of Lebanese native and French emigree writer Venus Khoury-Ghata, who evokes in sinuous lines and multivalent imagery the richness of her experiences of a multi-ethnic
traditional culture." --"The Women's Review of Books"

Praise for "She Says"

"Hacker opens for English-language readers a veritable 'suitcase filled with alphabets'--the perfectly blended French and Arabic imagination of Lebanese native and French emigree writer Venus Khoury-Ghata, who evokes in sinuous lines and multivalent imagery the richness of her experiences of a multi-ethnic
traditional culture." --"The Women's Review of Books""

Hacker opens for English-language readers a veritable 'suitcase filled with alphabets'--the perfectly blended French and Arabic imagination of Lebanese native and French emigree writer Venus Khoury-Ghata, who evokes in sinuous lines and multivalent imagery the richness of her experiences of a multi-ethnic traditional culture. "The Women's Review of Books on She Says""

"Hacker opens for English-language readers a veritable 'suitcase filled with alphabets'--the perfectly blended French and Arabic imagination of Lebanese native and French emigree writer Venus Khoury-Ghata, who evokes in sinuous lines and multivalent imagery the richness of her experiences of a multi-ethnic traditional culture." --The Women's Review of Books on She Says

Reseña del editor

The new collection by the Lebanese poet Venus Khoury-Ghata, the author of She Says, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award

it could only have been elsewhere
the sun's anger overturned the country
men who came from the wounded side of the river knocked
on our borders
I say men so as not to say locusts
--from "Nettles"

In Nettles, Venus Khoury-Ghata brings her impulses for lyric poetry and for stark narrative together into four enchanting sequences. Each confronts the realities of womanhood, immigration, and cultural conflict with an imagination and history born from both the Arabic and French languages. Masterfully translated by
Marilyn Hacker, Nettles gives American readers this utterly original, indispensable poetry.