Where Are the Trees Going?

Longlist finalist, 2015 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation

Bringing the work of acclaimed poet Venus Khoury-Ghata to a new generation of anglophone readers, renowned award-winning poet and translator Marilyn Hacker has rendered Khoury-Gata's highly praised collection Où vont les arbres? into unforgettable English verse. In it, Khoury-Ghata takes on perennial themes of womanhood, immigration, and cultural conflict. Characters take root in her memory as weathered trees and garden plants, lending grit and body to the imaginative collection. As bracing as the turn of seasons, Where Are the Trees Going? highlights a poet writing with renewed urgency and maturity.

Khoury-Ghata's collection has been translated into fifteen languages. In this special edition, Paris-resident Hacker has also included selections from Khoury-Ghata's short fiction collection La maison aux orties (The House of Nettles). The resulting interplay illuminates the poet's contrasting and complementary drives toward surreal lyricism and stark narrative exposition.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Curbstone Press
Published: 10/30/2014
ISBN: 9780810130081
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.49h x 6.34w x 0.37d
Award: Best Translated Book Award - Finalist

Review Citations: Library Journal 09/15/2014 pg. 83