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OverviewThis is a book of poems that cycles and repeats, it is an enigmatic road. Footsteps, paths, a vacuous sky, an elusive destiny. It could be the anomie of modern life, or even a post-apocalypse. To live, to keep walking, is the quiet exhortation: ""Here begins the very hesitation / that obliges them to live."" ""A body separated from its soul."" Blankly denotative images, especially this one, nonetheless elicit a sound, a type of call. They posit a space, an emptiness - and this void is analogous to the emptiness this poetry fills. That is, in the bleakness, the hollowness, something rings. Walking the Earth is the various resonances of that most distilled, human, and enduring sound. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Amina Saïd , Peter Thompson , Hédi Abdel JaouadPublisher: Contra Mundum Press Imprint: Contra Mundum Press Dimensions: Width: 12.70cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.163kg ISBN: 9781940625683ISBN 10: 1940625688 Pages: 144 Publication Date: 09 August 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationAmina Saïd was born in Tunis (Tunisia) in 1953. She has been living in Paris for many years. As well as seventeen collections of poems, including a trilogy (Tombeau pour sept frères, Les Saisons d'Aden, Le Corps noir du soleil), she has published two volumes of Tunisian folktales.Her work has been honored by literary prizes, been the subject of critical studies, and anthologized and translated widely, in particular into Spanish and English (The Present Tense of the World: Poems 2000-2009, translated by Marilyn Hacker, Black Widow Press, Boston, 2011), or at the worldwide literary festivals in which she often participates. She has also translated from English into French several novels and short stories by the major Filipino writer F. Sionil José. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |