2nd Edition, with 9 new drawings by Etel Adnan. Originally published in 1986, JOURNEY TO MOUNT TAMALPAIS is at once a deep study and a love letter of and to a mountain. A prose essay written with the lyricism and precision of a master poet, Wendell ...
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Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Translated from the Arabic by Michael Sells. BEWILDERED contains new translations of Ibn al-'Arabī Tarjuman poems in modern poetic English. The translator of a highly praised volume of pre-Islamic qasidas, Desert Trac...
Poetry. California Interest. "TOO MUCH HAPPENS is a collection that mingles personal and major social concerns in an attempt to give voice to a sense of increasing fear for a cherished world in crisis. Catastrophic wars, child soldiers, dried lake b...
Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Translated from the Arabic by Alicia F. Lam.This is the first full length English-Language translation of the beautifully crafted prose poems of Issa Makhlouf.
Poetry. Translated from the French by Simone Fattal, Etel Adnan and Cole Swensen. "This book aims at being a kind of manual allowing one to follow the weft of thinking, its natural and necessary development—when the simple and urgent question is ask...
Poetry. "In Anne Waldman's JAGUAR HARMONICS, the voice of the Ayahuasca vine, a 'person woven of sound' speaks to the poet and us: 'now you are quick, soon you will be dead'; 'you can't just go around killing and conquering persons'. And the poet as...
Poetry. Translated from the French by Simone Fattal and Cole Swensen. MUM IS DOWN is Oscarine Bosquet's second collection of poetry to be translated into English."MUM IS DOWN is at once a harrowing work and, by the sheer integrity of its agonistic c...
Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Translated from the French by Marilyn Hacker. "Beginning with the astonishing prologue poem, 'Conversation with Mohammed Dib,' followed by four long, spectacular poems, each a small book in itself, Habib Tengour's CRO...
Poetry. Literary Criticism. Middle Eastern Studies. LGBT Studies. Edited by Lindsey Boldt, Steve Dickison, and Samantha Giles. Compiled on the occasion of Arab American poet and painter, Etel Adnan's receipt of Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Cent...
Poetry. "Cole Swensen's STELE goes forth with an artful, graceful balancing as in a minuet, stopping, bowing and then moving towards new thought. This reading 'presumes a crossing' of empty space in each line. This crossing is a waking dream, linki...
Poetry. Northwest Africa Studies. Middle Eastern Studies. Translated from the French by Dawn Michelle Baude. "VISION OF THE RETURN is an ambitious work that wants to reinvent a space of writing (& breathing). Weary of earlier generations' lyrical ex...
Poetry. Written in and around the Spring of 2009, composed of short, fragmentary blocks of verse and prose, including several quoted sources, GUSTONBOOK is a workman's notebook of sorts sketched out in response to several years spent contemplating t...
Fiction. Poetry. Cross-Genre. Leslie Scalapino's new book of prose, THE DIHEDRONS GAZELLE-DIHEDRALS ZOOM, while a work that stands on its own, is book II as a pair with book I, FLOATS HORSE-FLOATS OR HORSE-FLOWS (Starcherone, 2010), described by Mic...
Poetry. "A strange intelligence guides the works in THE NEW MAKE BELIEVE toward insistent, yet nearly ineffable, redefinitions of commonplace words, as if everything were, in being named, strange. 'Accident,' 'law,' 'memorial,' 'wolf,' 'pants,' 'sex...