for poetry to speak
the poems also offer the hope of forging new paths through the connecting power of language
rising from a post-2008 London
"Amanda Berenguer's poems from the 1980s collected under the title of The Lady of Elche are
as well as compelling recent work
Of Cities & Women (Letters To Fawwaz) Holly Pester for poetry to speakEtel 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.