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Souad Labbize<\/a><\/h1>\n

Translated by Susanna Lang<\/a><\/h2>\n

My Soul Has No Corners<\/h3>\n

ISBN:978-1-956921-17-5\u00a0<\/span>(pbk.)<\/p>\n

(October, 2023) (Pre-order pricing through September.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Souad Labbize is a poet of love and exile. Born in Algeria, she lived for years in Tunisia before crossing the Mediterranean to France, where she can live as she chooses and speak in the name of all women who leave their homelands in order to affirm their independence. This introduction to the poet\u2019s work brings together two of the collections she has published in France: Drafts of Love <\/i>is a linked sequence of love poems that together form the narrative of a relationship between two women, not from the beginning to the end but to a pause, while Bindle of Exile <\/i>tells us \u201chow to leave the country\/lightweight.\u201d In her brief but concise poems, Souad Labbize has condensed great passion and an unyielding commitment to truth, freedom and justice.<\/p>\n

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Front cover art: Annie Kurkdjian<\/p>\n

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Praise for Souad Labbize and My Soul Has No Corners<\/i><\/h3>\n

I set up\/the playing field\/of my silence. So many of the poems in Souad Labbize\u2019s important work are about words. Not in that meta way, or that poetry lab way, but in the ways of love, silence, daring. And Susanna Lang\u2019s words play on the same field, own it, by cajoling some knotty French syntax. Labbize is often called a writer \u201cd\u2019expression fran\u00e7aise<\/i>.\u201d Now\u2014and we\u2019re lucky, with this beautiful collection\u2014she\u2019s a writer expressed in English.<\/p>\n

\u2014Peter Thompson, translator of Abdellatif La\u00e2bi\u2019s Hope on the Fly<\/i><\/p>\n

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Although many of the central motifs of this collection\u2014love, exile, desires unfulfilled\u2014might seem quotidian, Souad Labbize\u2019s poetry is anything but. The sparseness and concision of this verse belie a remarkable psychological profundity and aphoristic incisiveness. Susanna Lang\u2019s deft translation allows the intimacy, irreverence, and acuity of Labbize\u2019s verse to shine through.<\/p>\n

\u2014Kareem James Abu-Zeid, translator of Olivia Elias\u2019 Chaos, Crossing<\/i><\/p>\n

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\u201cI believe that the poem belongs to the poet rather than to me as a translator,\u201d translator Susanna Lang writes in the notes to My Soul Has No Corners. And Lang brings us Souad Labizze\u2019s poems as if Labizze were handing them to us herself, perfectly at home in English. With no punctuation and distilled language, these poems are quietly surreal and intimate, domestic in all senses of the word\u2014especially in opposition to the idea of \u201cforeign.\u201d Many of the poems show the speaker finding and making a home\/s in exile, especially in language, even if that home is complicated: \u201cneither Hugo nor \u00c9luard\/wrote a single word\/for us the others\/the dust the colonized.\u201d We English speakers are lucky to have these poems.<\/p>\n

\u2014Andy Young, author of All Night It Is Morning<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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