Author : Etel Adnan
Publisher : Post Apollo Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 23,63 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
Poetry. "With this book of poems Etel Adnan establishes herself as a major poet who belongs beside internationally acclaimed poets like Transtromer, Bly, Neruda, Vallejo, and Pessoa." Eric Sellin"
Author : Lisa Suhair Majaj
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,24 MB
Release : 2015-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0786482753
This collection of essays concentrates on Arab-American writer and artist Etel Adnan. Up until now, there has been no single volume dedicated to her work despite Adnan's increasing recognition and acclaim across the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. The essays fall into two sections. In the first, the essays respond to the range of vision and experience in Adnan's writing and art through analysis and appreciation. The second section focuses on responses to and interpretations of Sitt Marie Rose, Adnan's well known novel about the Lebanese war. As a whole, the writings in this work seek to provide a comprehensive look at Adnan's literary and artistic accomplishments through analysis and close readings that place her texts within wider literary contexts.
Author : Etel Adnan
Publisher : Post Apollo Press
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 15,79 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Poetry. "THERE is a poem of hidden seams, fissures that we cross unsuspecting. A smooth surface conceals a universe of sudden shifts and transitions from one level to another a philosophical level which pursues the mysteries of consciousness and place, a second level which asks the same questions ('do I have to have a nationality in order to be human?') in a committed social and political vision, a passionate and engaged post-modernism." Michael Beard, Univ. of North Dakota"
Author : Sonia Day
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 35,50 MB
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0771025076
Which suggestive plant caused a queen to faint when it was presented to her at court? What was the original French name for the Great Maiden's Blush rose that had the Victorians blushing? Why are figs and pomegranates thought to be the real forbidden fruit that led Adam and Eve into temptation? In this delightful gift book, master gardener Sonia Day brings together delicious tidbits from myth, history, botany, and plant lore to reveal how plants have seduced our hearts, minds, and bodies throughout the ages. Organized in thematic chapters that loosely follow the arc of a love affair, the book journeys from "Innocence" (the notion of a virgin being "deflowered" originated with the belief that flowers were pure and sexless), through such stages as "Flirtation," "Seduction," "Lust," "Deception," and "Rapture." Scattered throughout are love potions, examples from the Victorian "language of flowers," and charming anecdotes, all told in Day's delightfully irreverent and conversational voice. Gorgeously designed and featuring full-colour photos and illustrations throughout, this is a sumptuous tribute to our enduring fascination with plants that is sure to seduce readers everywhere.
Author : Etel Adnan
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 43,6 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
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"
Author : Etel Adnan
Publisher : Post Apollo Press
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 50,78 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
Poetry. "In/somnia explores fissures within words as places where thought enters. Sleepless sleepers, we dream among ever more complex and hallucinatory realitites: `in/tense/in/season'"--Rosmari e Waldrop. Other titles by Etel Adnan, available from SPD include, THERE: IN THE LIGHT AND THE DARKNESS OF THE SELF AND OF THE OTHER; OF CITIES & WOMEN (LETTERS TO FAWWAZ); PARIS, WHEN IT'S NAKED; and THE ARAB APOCALYPSE.
Author : Judith Rauscher
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,38 MB
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3839469341
American ecopoetries of migration explore the conflicted relationships of mobile subjects to the nonhuman world and thus offer valuable environmental insight for our current age of mass mobility and global ecological crisis. In Ecopoetic Place-Making, Judith Rauscher analyzes the works of five contemporary American poets of migration, drawing from ecocriticism and mobility studies. The poets discussed in her study challenge exclusionary notions of place-attachment and engage in ecopoetic place-making from different perspectives of mobility, testifying to the potential of poetry as a means of conceptualizing alternative environmental imaginaries for our contemporary world on the move.
Author : Ammiel Alcalay
Publisher : City Lights Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 14,77 MB
Release : 1999-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780872863606
This text features essays from Ammiel Alcalay covering Mediterranean culture, Arabic literature, the war in Bosnia, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, the destruction of Carthage, and much more.
Author : John Keats
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 17,41 MB
Release : 1818
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Moneera Al-Ghadeer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 26,98 MB
Release : 2009-05-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0857711962
The Bedouin, or 'desert dwellers', have a rich cultural heritage often expressed through music and poetry. Here, Moneera Al-Ghadeer provides us with the first comparative reading of women's oral poetry from Saudi Arabia. She examines women's lyrics of love, desire, mourning and grievance. We come to understand Bedouin mores and - most significantly - the unique description of a desert that is consistently held to be infinite, evocative, stimulating and an eternal freedom. As the first English translation and analysis of this poetry, "Desert Voices" is both a gesture to preserving the oral poetic tradition of Bedouin women and a radical critique addressing the exclusion of their poetry from current academic literary studies. The book provides invaluable material for reflection in the debates around oral culture and women's poetic composition while it translates, presents and critically examins a genre, which opens Arabic poetry and literature to contemporary theory and criticism.
