Here There Was Once a Country - Softcover

Venus Khoury-Ghata

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0932440894 ISBN 13: 9780932440891

Publisher: Oberlin College Press, 2001

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. Here brilliantly translated from the French by poet Marilyn Hacker, the English-speaking reader has rare insight into another world, another dimension.

About this title

About the Author

Venus Khoury-Ghata is a Lebanese poet and novelist, resident in France since 1973. She has published many collections of poems and novels, including ANTHOLOGIE PERSONNELLE, new and selected poems (1997), and ELLE DIT, her most recent collection (1999). Her awards include the Prix Mallarme, the Prix Apollinaire, and the Grand Prix de la Societe des gens de lettres. Her work has been translated into Italian, Russian, Dutch, German, and Arabic.

Marilyn Hacker is the author of nine books of poetry, including the verse novel LOVE, DEATH AND THE CHANGING OF THE SEASONS and her most recent collection, SQUARES AND COURTYARDS (2000). Her awards include the National Book Award, two Lambda Literary Awards, and the Lenore Marshall Award. She lives in New York and Paris, and directs the M.A. program in English literature and creative writing at the City College of New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oberlin College Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0932440894
• ISBN 13: 9780932440891
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 116