Lighthouse for the Drowning

Buhur al-Shi ‘r” (the meters of poetry)

the eucalyptus whose branch has grown
to resemble me.

Three Profiles of Death
1.

LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE DROWNING

She then feels the lines course through her, and she stands at the lip of the stage, and, with her own tongue, tries to articulate the vision she sees in the air beyond. This, at least, was our aspiration for Lighthouse for the Drowning.
Jayson Iwen & Huda Fakhreddine

he psychological continuity of Lighthouse).

The translator-actor assumes, as best she can, through empathy and understanding, the perceived character of the author (aided, in this particular case

We took the originals to be scripts in need of performance by an actor, with that performance being the English poem.

It is our belief, born of study and practice, that, in their work, literary writers are usually aiming at something beyond words, something they can never entirely capture, and it was toward that ineffable thing, that distant shape we saw wavering on the horizon of each poem, that we likewise aimed with each translation.

philosophy behind our current approach.