In Nettles, Vénus Khoury-Ghata brings her impulses for lyric poetry and for stark narrative together into five enchanting sequences. Each confronts the realities of womanhood, immigration, and cultural conflict with an imagination and history born from both the Arabic and French languages. In a masterly translation by Marilyn Hacker, Nettles gives American readers this utterly original, indispensable poetry.
Vénus Khoury-Ghata is a Lebanese poet and novelist, the author of the poetry collection She Says, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Award, and the novel A House at the Edge of Tears. She has been a resident of France since 1973. Marilyn Hacker is a National Book Award-winning poet and the translator from French of several contemporary poets. She lives in Paris and New York, where she is a professor of English and Creative Writing at City College. She also teaches Literary Translation at the CUNY Graduate Center.
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