Here There Was Once a Country by Vnus Khouryghata
Lebanese writer V nus Khoury-Ghata, who lives in France and has won many of France's major literary prizes, blends French surrealism with Arabic poetry's communal narrative mode in three stunning poetic sequences. Here brilliantly translated from the French by poet Marilyn Hacker, the English-speaking reader has rare insight into another world, another dimension.
“From the embers of loss and death, from childhood and the moon, from villages and cemeteries and forests, geography and God, Khoury-Ghata has created a dazzling, soaring, thrilling imagination. . Here There Was Once a Country is to poetry what One Hundred Years of Solitude is to fiction. Here is another world, another language, another dimension to reality, which will never again be the same.” -- Alicia Ostriker
Vénus Khoury-Ghata is a Lebanese poet and novelist who has been a resident
of France since 1973. She is the author of a dozen collections of poems and as many
novels. Her work has been translated into Italian, Russian, Dutch, German, and Arabic.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780932440891 |
| ISBN 10 | 0932440894 |
| Title | Here There Was Once a Country |
| Author | Vénus Khoury-Ghata |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oberlin College Press |
| Year published | 2001-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 116 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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