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Full of sensuality, erudition, and wit, Hedi Kaddour's poetry arises from observation, from situations both ordinary and emblematic - of contemporary life, of human stubbornness, human invention, human cruelty, of the way the past invisibly inflects and inflicts the present. With "Treason", the award-winning poet and translator Marilyn Hacker presents an English-speaking audience with the first selected volume of his work. The poetries of several languages and literary traditions are lively and constant presences in the work of Hedi Kaddour, a Parisian as well as a Germanist and an Arabist. A walker's, a watcher's, and a listener's poems, his sonnet-shaped vignettes often include a line or two of dialogue that turns his observations and each poem itself into a kind of miniature theatre piece. Favouring compact, classical models over long verse forms, Kaddour questions the structures of syntax and the limits of poetic form, combining elements of both international modernism and postmodernism with great sophistication. Capturing Kaddour's full range of diction, as well as his speed, momentum, and tone, Marilyn Hacker's translations brilliantly bring these poems alive in English.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: Treason
• Author: Hedi Kaddour
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 192
• EAN: 9780300149586
• ISBN: 0300149581
• ID: 04050740
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Weight: 338 g
• Dimensions: 213 × 147 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. April 2010

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