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Author's name: Aniz Kultenzdar Publisher: Tabaq Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2023 Literary classification: Poetry Overview of the book: Kultenzdar, born in 1928, is considered one of the most important contemporary Luxembourg poets. She received many international awards, most notably the Luxembourg Prize in 1962, the Claude Sery Prize in 1981, the John Malrieu Prize in 1991, the Blais Sanderar Prize in 1992, and was awarded by the Royal Belgian Academy in 1994. She also received the Apollinaire Prize in 1998, and in 2008 the Serve Prize (for her collection "The Place of the Other Words"). In 2011, she was awarded the Théo Gosselin Prize. The Algerian academic and translator, Khodr Choudar, is one of the translators distinguished in translating poetic works from English and French into Arabic, in addition to his academic work at universities in the United States. Several of his translations have been published, including "The Disrupted Music Coming from the Trees," by Louise Glück, "The World Walks with Me" by Aniz Kultenzdar, and "Your Touch is Soft as the Death of a Tree" by Alain Bousquet. He also published "Shadows of Meaning" and "The Other Side of Things." This recently issued collection includes more than thirty translated poems, characterized by poeticism, diversity in themes, and a sense of place and time. Selected excerpts from the poetry collection: In this world that does not revolve around itself, Everything is organized, Even to nothingness, Our past remains, Our present, And the distance between life and death, Is fixed.