Audiobook A Dress of Locusts by Safa Khatib in the ListenBook app
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Book description
Imagine hearing poetry that doesn't just speak to you, but unfurls around you. That's the magic of Safa Khatib's A Dress of Locusts as an audiobook. This isn't just a reading; it's an immersion into a living, breathing tapestry woven from Aramaic whispers, Spanish cadences, Ancient Greek echoes, Sumerian fragments, and Arabic resonance. As Safia Elhillo so perfectly put it, Khatib's words "open my eyes, sharpen my ears"-and that's especially true when you hear them spoken. The layered languages, often lost on the page, gain a startling, palpable depth in the voice, each tongue adding a new shade to the meaning.
Niki Herd calls Khatib's work "meditative clarity" that "calls us to account" for looking away from the "historic now." The audiobook amplifies this urgency. You don't just read about the "thresholds between the 'old' and the 'new'"; you feel them shift in your ears as the poet moves fluidly between languages and eras. The living and dead, as the book describes, "sing back and forth"-and in audio, that dialogue feels immediate, intimate, almost like a conversation happening in the quiet space beside you. You hear the weight of history, the urgency of revolution, not as abstract concepts, but as a song cycle that resonates in your bones.
This is an electrifying debut, and the audio format is its perfect vessel. The rhythm of the poems, the careful pacing, the way the multilingual threads interweave-these elements are meant to be heard. You'll catch the Sumerian fragments shimmering beneath the Arabic, the Spanish sighs weaving through the Greek, creating a soundscape that's both ancient and urgently contemporary. It's not merely a collection; it's a call to listen deeply, to turn your attention to the histories we've ignored, the voices we've silenced, and the ways language itself is a site of both resistance and renewal.
As the Poetry Book Society rightly declared, this is "essential reading." But listening to it? That's transformative. Khatib doesn't just write about the thresholds; she guides you across them, one spoken word, one resonant language at a time. You'll find yourself pausing the audiobook, just to sit with the echo of a phrase, to let a Sumerian syllable settle in your mind. It's a profound, necessary experience-a reminder of how language, when wielded with such clarity and courage, can truly change the way we see the world. An unforgettable journey, beautifully rendered for the ear.
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