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Khairi Hamdan

Poet, writer and translator KHAIRI HAMDAN was born in 1962 in the city of Dier Sharaf, on the West Bank of the Jordan River. In 1967, his family emigrated to Jordan, where he lived until 1982. Since then, Khairi Hamdan has lived and worked in Bulgaria. He is the author of a number of books published in Bulgarian and Arabic, most recently the novel Chestnut Gardens and the poetry collection The Water Lilies of Memory. Hamdan translates poetry and prose between Arabic and Bulgarian and has been awarded several international honors for his translations, as well as for his original work.

Answer Yes Or No by Khairi Hamdan
translated from the Bulgarian by Katerina Stoykova

September 22, 2022 Contributed By: Katerina Stoykova, Kelsey Nichols, Khairi Hamdan

"Summer" by Kelsey Nichols

Answer the call of the flute—
the lost impulse of the absent poets,
the incomplete painting, the unrained cloud,
the prophecy of an upcoming confession—

Filed Under: Featured Translation, Poetry, Translation Posted On: September 22, 2022

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