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VII

from The Lady of Syros

Translated by
Marilyn Hacker
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Face without a face

nose sniffing out the dead wrapped tight in their bandages

my silent silhouette reigned over all the necropolis

The sculptor from Syros wanted it

he had pruned me like a sick tree

carved away what was superfluous to my survival

erased my surplus temporality

kept the invisible cry

the frozen gaze turned inwards

He enclosed me in a space defined for all time

clothed in nudity […]

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A Handful of Blue Earth
Poems by Vénus Khoury-Ghata
 , pp. 12
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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  • VII
  • Translated by Marilyn Hacker
  • Book: A Handful of Blue Earth
  • Online publication: 01 February 2018
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  • VII
  • Translated by Marilyn Hacker
  • Book: A Handful of Blue Earth
  • Online publication: 01 February 2018
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