Safa Khatib

A Dress of Locusts

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An electrifying debut collection exploring language and revolution, by an extraordinary new poetic talent

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 64
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 130mm x 197mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 78g
• ISBN-13: 9781526667960
• ISBN-10: 1526667967
• Artikelnr.: 72800702

Autorenporträt

Safa Khatib is a poet, translator, teacher and daughter of South Indian immigrants. Her writing has appeared in numerous journals, including Words Without Borders, the Baffler, the Kenyon Review and the White Review. She is the recipient of support from the US Fulbright Program and the Stadler Center for Poetry, among other institutions. She is currently a PhD student in the Track for International Writers in the department of Comparative Literature at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri.

Rezensionen

Composed with bold, economical precision, Khatib's debut comprises a blend of dream, riddle, parable, and prophecy. The book's title is spoken by Ishtar, the Mesopotamian goddess of love and war. This is, incredibly, an apt punctum for the book's meditations on desire, faith, and ancient continuities between the so-called "West" and "(Middle) East". Khatib's wildly ambitious imagination collapses those divisions and defies contemporary geopolitical premises. The book's idiosyncratic spirituality and vision are matched by its delightful, playful earthiness. Essential reading