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 and confessional attractions and repulsions of the French and Arabic imaginations with poems that open like "a suitcase filled with alphabets. " Sex, barrenness, grief, and death--the backdrop of a war-ravaged country--are always at the edges, made increasingly urgent by lines often jagged and spare, their music unhaltered. Khoury-Ghata is a vital voice in both her native and adopted languages and we are pleased to present this important collection in English.