Like a straw bird it follows me
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my favourite section from this book (which had translations of poems from some of zaqtan's other collections) was the poems from biography of charcoal which definitely felt like poetry of witness to me and were just incredible, so im hoping to get my hands on the original collection at some point! zaqtan definitely does have a talent for domestic yet cutting imagery, and despite that quaintness of imagery the voice of the poems is quite grandiose in a way that seems to appreciate the gravity of its own object.
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my favourite section from this book (which had translations of poems from some of zaqtan's other collections) was the poems from biography of charcoal which definitely felt like poetry of witness to me when this book is good, its really good and when its bad, its just plain bizzare. When this book is good, its really good and when its bad, its just plain bizzare.
#Like a straw bird it follows me code#
"Ghassan Zaqtan's poems, in their constant unfolding," Joudah writes, "invite us to enter them, exit them, map and unmap them, code and decode them, fill them up and empty them, with the living and nonliving, the animate and inanimate, toward a true freedom.". In his preface to the volume, Joudah analyzes and explores the poet's body of work. Departing from the lush aesthetics of such celebrated predecessors as Mahmoud Darwish and Adonis, Zaqtan's daily, delicate narrative, whirling catalogues, and at times austere aesthetics represent a new trajectory, a significant leap for young Arabic poets today. With these poems Zaqtan enters new terrain, illuminating the vision of what Arabic poetry in general and Palestinian poetry in particular are capable of. In this inspired translation of Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me, Ghassan Zaqtan's tenth and most recent poetry collection,along with selected earlier poems, Fady Joudah brings to English-language readers the best work by one of the most important and original Palestinian poets of our time. A stirring collection of recent work by a leading poet of the Arab world, superbly translated for English-language readers In this inspired translation of Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me, Ghassan Zaqtan's tenth and most recent poetry collection,along with selected earlier poems, Fady Joudah brings to English-language readers the best work by one of the most important and or A stirring collection of recent work by a leading poet of the Arab world, superbly translated for English-language readers