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Cold Water Shielded: Selected Poems
Paperback
Series: UNESCO Collection of Representative Works: European
Publisher Price: $20.00
ISBN13: 9781852244873
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Published: Apr 27 2000
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.46 Depth: 8.68
Language: English
French-English dual language edition
Salah 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 'hanging on the other side of being' - 'the great soft lion's track in the invisible' - 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, 'Françarabe', 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 weekly L'Orient littéraire in 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 life's work. This included over fifty books translated into 15 languages.
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