Vénus Khoury-Ghata is a Lebanese poet and novelist. Her most recent book of poems in an English translation is Alphabets of Sands (Carcanet) As the seasons waned Collided with our own trees grown ...

""Living in Lebanon, I wouldn't have written books; I would have had children cooked"" writes Parisian ex-pat Venus Khoury-Ghata as a partial answer to why she writes in French. She Says, translated ...