edited by Yasmine Haj and Norah Alkharashi ISBN: 978-1-775-2567-6-2 Poetry | Translation | Arabic trace: translating [x] series *Unfortunately, tariffs & duties are making it expensive for us to mail books outside of Canada. We encourage US, UK, Europe customers to ask local bookstore to order our titles from Ingram US, & to ignore the 'out of stock notice.' Their order will reactivate regular shipping from our Canadian distributor LitDistCo. In Arabic, the word for love حب is one letter shorter than the word for war حرب Here, translators gather to perform an intimate labour, moving words from Arabic into English, or reversing such direction as language dissolves into cities, landscapes, or portals that open to rubble, or only air. These poems reverberate in the space between there and here, silence and voice, original and translation, and the polarities of war and love. Poets & Translators George Abraham, Eman Abukhadra, Omar Aljaffal, Norah Alkharashi, Lamia Abbas Amara, Nour Balousha, Samar Diab, Najlaa Osman Eltom, Miled Faiza (& Karen McNeil), Zeena Faulk, Ibrahim Fawzy, Daad Haddad, Yasmine Haj, Mayada Ibrahim, Rana Issa, Ali Mahmoud Khudayyir, Hiba Moustafa, Suneela Mubayi, Mariam Naji, Ibrahim Nasrallah, Nashwa Nasreldin, Kamal Nasser, Nofel, Qasim Saudi, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, & Fadwa Tuqan. May the poems gathered here––in translation, and in their original voice––spark introspection, remedy, and acts of imagination in between. ––Yasmine Haj, “To Speak to Each Other” (introduction) trace: translating [x] invites readers to think about writing, place, and community; and to consider what is gained, lost, or missing, in processes of translation. REVIEWS & COMMENTS "Addressing itself to the subtle but immense interstice between the Arabic words for ‘love’ and ‘war’, which differ by only one letter, trace press’s community-centric poetry anthology is as much a testament to beauty and survival under the conditions of catastrophe as it is a refusal to perform or fetishize suffering for a white gaze." – Alex Tan, Asymptote "War frequently lingers in the background, even when a poet speaks of love; while love is a persistent life force even in the face of loss, loneliness and displacement. And once again, the memory and fear of war haunts, even in the quiet in between conflicts––in the interval." – Joseph Schreiber, Rough Ghosts
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