A contracorrienteGhada Samman baila con búhos

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The poetic production of Ghada Samman, writer, journalist and Syrian poet, is practically unknown in the West. Dancing with Owls is one of her last works, published in 2003. Throughout the same, the author explores in an intimate way two main thematic axes: love-lovelessness and freedom-dominance. The one hundred and sixty-two autonomous texts that it houses have not been classified categorically under any Arab literary genre and are found between the prose poem and the micro-narrative. In spite of its freshness and transgressive attitude, it surprises the absence of translations to other languages of this work and of the greater part of the poetic production of the author. This brief article aims to draw attention to the author's literary production, and specifically to the aforementioned Dancing with Owls, revealing its originality and examining some of the main difficulties involved in its translation into Spanish