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The new collection by the Lebanese poet Venus Khoury-Ghata, the author of She Says, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award "it could only have been elsewhere the sun's anger overturned the country men who came from the wounded side of the river knocked on our borders I say men so as not to say locusts " --from "Nettles" In "Nettles, " Venus Khoury-Ghata brings her impulses for lyric poetry and for stark narrative together into ...

Award-winning American poet Marilyn Hacker offers the brilliance of Lebanese poet Venus Khoury-Ghata in an exquisite translation "She says" "the earth is so vast one can't help but be lost like water from a broken jug" "There is no fortress against the wind" "the winter wanderer must count on the compassion of walls" --from "She Says" Translated by celebrated American poet Marilyn Hacker, Venus Khoury-Ghata's "She Says "explores the mythic a...