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BLOODAXE BOOKS
04 / 2000
9781852244873
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Sinopsis

French-English dual language editionSalah Stétié (1929-2020) was a French Lebanese poet and essayist of international renown. In his exquisite, soberly beautiful poems, Western culture merges with Oriental and Arabic traditions. His writing has a swirling metaphysical dimension while never ceasing to root itself in earthy, sensuous experience. His poems evoke a deep, half-questioning, half-serene meditation of all that is âÇÖhanging on the other side of beingâÇÖ - âÇÖthe great soft lionâÇÖs track in the invisibleâÇÖ - while still capturing the swarming particularities of our daily presence in the world.Salah Stétié was the first poet of Arabic origin to publish in French. In the process of writing, a new language was created, âÇÖFranúarabeâÇÖ, in which many etymological roots are taken from the Arabic but where the words are nevertheless from the French.Salah Stétié was born in Beirut. After studies in Lebanon and France, he turned his attention towards the problems of contemporary poetry, establishing exchanges and friendships with writers such as Jouve, Mandiargues, Ungaretti, Bonnefoy, Du Bouchet and David Gascoyne. After launching the cultural weeklyáLâÇÖOrient littéraireáin Beirut, he developed two parallel careers, as a writer and as a distinguished diplomat, in Paris, Morocco, The Hague and elsewhere. He was awarded Le Grand Prix de la Francophonie in 1995 for his lifeâÇÖs work. This included over fifty books translated into 15 languages.

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