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Kalima, the translation initiative of the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH), has published the Arabic translation of "The World Doesn’t End: Prose Poems" by the American poet Charles Simic, whose work has previously been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1990.
The book, which was translated and commented on by the Jordanian poet and translator Tahsin Al Khatib, included an additional section that contained all the prose poems from the author’s 1994 book, "A Wedding in Hell".
Simic opens the book with an intensive and deep paper entitled: "The poetry of the village fools, its own concept of the prose poem as an act of liberation of the imagination and a pure literary creation that combines two opposing strategies: song and narrative." The texts reflect features that are frequently emphasized by those who study Simic and his critics. These features demonstrate a masterful combination within the building of sound poetry: an inclination towards the surreal and amazing poetic imagery on one hand, and the plunge into daily urban life with a contemplative spirit that is free of neither ambiguity nor irony, on the other hand.
Simic is one of the leading names on the American poetry scene. He was chosen by the Library of Congress in 2007 as a "Poet Laureate". On the same day he was awarded the Wallace Stevens Award by the Academy of American Poets for his "proven ability in the art of poetry." The translator and poet Tahsin Al Khatib was born in 1968 in the Jordanian city of Zarqa, from a displaced Palestinian family. He has published translations in a number of Arab newspapers and magazines, and he has also published translations from Arabic into English in American and British journals and periodicals.
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