Poetry. "A series of meditations following the sun, SEASONS arrives in mesmerizing waves of observation and reflection. The blue depths of Adnan's inquiry--into the nature of Being, Time, knowledge itself--crest moment upon moment of quiet revelation, as the passions of history, myth, today, and yesterday rage and subside beneath her watchful eye. 'To think is not to contemplate, it's to witness.' So stanzas wash upon the page's horizon, ever moving toward the mind's encounters with the world. Intimate with ephemera, alert to what's hidden, SEASONS seeks the universe within and beyond the spirit's changeable weather, finding everywhere its center"--Megan Pruiett. Etel Adnan is a Lebanese-American feminist painter and poet. Other Adnan titles available from SPD include THE ARAB APOCALYPSE, IN THE HEART OF THE HEART OF ANOTHER COUNTRY, and IN/SOMNIA.

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Etel Adnan is an Arab-American poet and writer who studied at the Sorbonne in France, U.C. Berkeley, and Harvard. She taught Philosophy at Dominican College in San Rafael, California. She is the author of SITT MARIE-ROSE (The Post-Apollo Press, 1982), the celebrated novel on the Civil War in Lebanon (translated into ten languages). She has written more than ten books of poetry, essays, and cultural writings. Among her recent works are THE ARAB APOCALYPSE (The Post-Apollo Press, 2007), SEASONS (The Post-Apollo Press, 2008), and SEA AND FOG (Nightboat Books, 2011). She is a recipient of a 2010 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles National Literary Award. She lives between Sausalito, California; Paris; and Beirut.

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