The Present Tense of the World: Poems 2000-2009

Multi-award winning poet Amina Said was born in Tunis and has lived in Paris since 1978. Her work, though translated into German, Turkish, Arabic, and Italian, has only seen snippets translated into English. Poet Marilyn Hacker has edited and translated a survey of Said's poems from the last ten years in a fully bilingual anthology. The first survey of Said's works to appear in the English language.