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Samira Negrouche

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it seems unlikely to me

It seems unlikely to me
that a key-word
would open anything whatever
worth the bother
words don’t open anything
actually
function paralyses words
I acknowledge the statistic
paralyses
all the software
by saturation

© Translation: 2020, Marilyn Hacker
From: The Olives Trees’ Jazz & Other Poems
Publisher: Pleiades, Warrensburg Missouri, 2020

il me semble difficile

il me semble difficile
qu’un mot-clé
puisse ouvrir quoi que ce soit
qui en vaille la peine
les mots n’ouvrent rien
véritablement
la fonction paralyse le mot
j’assume la statistique
paralyse
tout logiciel
par saturation

© 2017, Samira Negrouche
From: Six arbres de fortune autour de ma baignoire
Publisher: Mazette, Paris

Samira Negrouche

Samira Negrouche

(Algeria, 1980)

“no one foresees 
where the lines will be drawn 
that separate you 
from the others’ geography 
from their shadows 

you inhabited 
with all your being 
the line 
to be crossed”
_{- from: Thanksgiving}

Samira Negrouche is part of a new generation of Francophone Algerian poets: a 'species' thought to be destined for disappearance with the post-revolutionary adoption of Arabic as first language...

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it seems unlikely to me

It seems unlikely to me
that a key-word
would open anything whatever
worth the bother
words don’t open anything
actually
function paralyses words
I acknowledge the statistic
paralyses
all the software
by saturation

© 2020, Marilyn Hacker
From: The Olives Trees’ Jazz & Other Poems
Publisher: 2020, Pleiades, Warrensburg Missouri

it seems unlikely to me

It seems unlikely to me
that a key-word
would open anything whatever
worth the bother
words don’t open anything
actually
function paralyses words
I acknowledge the statistic
paralyses
all the software
by saturation

© 2020, Marilyn Hacker
From: The Olives Trees’ Jazz & Other Poems
Publisher: 2020, Pleiades, Warrensburg Missouri

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