Tagged: “Women’s Poetry in France”
Poem of the Week: Extract from “Trials of the Written” by Andrée Chedid
One would like, first, to conciliate dawn, render firm the soil of gentleness, before colliding with the smooth bark of the page, before entering the unsheltered flatlands.
Continue ReadingPoem of the Week: “Poète / Poet” by Vénus Khoury-Ghata
We’ve been posting translations to celebrate National Translation Month, and today we’ve chosen a French poem by Vénus Khoury-Ghata from her collection, Au sud du silence. Khoury-Ghata is a translator herself, most notably from French to Arabic for the magazine Europe, but this poem was translated into English by Michael Bishop for an anthology of French poetry…
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