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Lebanese writer Vénus 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.

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“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

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Translator’s Preface • Widow • The Dead Man’s Monologue • The Seven Honeysuckle Sprigs of Wisdom • Early Childhood

Here There Was Once a Country Field Translation

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      Publisher: Oberlin College Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/06/2001
      ISBN13: 9780932440891, 978-0932440891
      ISBN10: 0932440894

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Lebanese writer Vénus 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.

      Trade Review
      “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

      Table of Contents
      Translator’s Preface • Widow • The Dead Man’s Monologue • The Seven Honeysuckle Sprigs of Wisdom • Early Childhood

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