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A mosaic of lyrical vignettes, at once deeply personal and political, set against the turbulent backdrop of Arab/Western relations. Adnan writes, "Contrary to what is usually believed, it is not general ideas and grandiose unfolding of great events t
Etel Adnan's evocative new book places night at its center to unearth memories held in the body, the spirit and the landscape. This striking new book continues Adnan's meditative observation and inquiry into the experiences of her remarkable life.
A new volume of aphoristic prose and philosophical poetry from Etel Adnan, whose work The New York Times recently described as the "meditative heir to Nietzsche's aphorisms, Rilke's Book of Hours and the verses of Sufi mysticism." She wr
A collection of stories about displacement, love, loss, poetry and war, from the Lebanese poet and painter who has been called "arguably the most celebrated and accomplished Arab-American author writing today" (Melus). The stories in Master of t
These interrelated meditations explore the nature of the individual spirit and the individual spiritedness of the natural world. As skilled a philosopher as she is a poet, in Sea & Fog, Adnan weaves multiple sonic, theoretical, and syntactic pleasures at
WINNER of the INTERNATIONAL GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE WINNER of the BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD FINALIST for the 2020 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD On October 27, 2003, Adnan received a post card of a palm tree from the poet Khaled Najar, who she had met in the late se
A heart-rending meditation on aging, grief, and the universal experience of facing death.
Beirut er lemlæstet af borgerkrigen, og på en skole for døvstumme udsættes Sitt Marie-Rose for et brutalt forhør, anklaget for landsforræderi af den kristne milits. Foruden at være en vellidt lærer er Marie-Rose feminist, aktivist og blandt andet engagere
Den arabiske apokalypse blev skrevet i 1976 som en reaktion på borgerkrigen i Libanon og regnes som Etel Adnans litterære hovedværk. Den udkom på fransk i 1980 og ni år senere på engelsk i Adnans egen gendigtning, som ligger til grund for nærværende overs
The fourth volume in PAJ's Performance Ideas series, The Sun on the Tongue unfolds in an expanding universe of philosophical reflections on love, art, war, nature, and human existence. Etel Adnan, the internationally renowned Arab American writer and