Of Cities & Women (Letters To Fawwaz) Ecodeviance (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness

Of Cities & Women (Letters To Fawwaz) Ecodeviance (Soma)tics for the Future WildernessEtel Adnan In these letters, written to Fawwaz Traboulsi, sent from Barcelona, Aix en Provence, Skopelos, Murcia, Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, and Beirut in lieu of an essay on feminism for a special issue of his magazine Zawaya on Arab Women, Etel Adnan unfolds startling meditations on gender, place, culture, landscape, vision, eros, illness, mortality, and war. Of Cities and Women is a philosophical and poetic tour de force.

The collection’s title

constructing his poems out of sequential one-line tankas

Here life’s innumerable impressions

"It was Sappho who first called eros 'bittersweet

her title is inspired by Translations of the Gospel Back into Tongues

ANDRE DEKKER (1956) is beeldhouwer

consists of forty-nine poems

As the poet herself notes: “My name is Bernadette Mayer

een persiflage op ‘Mária Lécina’ van J

Elk ogenblik kan alles kantelen

His legacy in world literature is matched by his widespread influence as an activist and cultural leader

drawing characters such as Gertrude Stein