Search results for ""Author Etel Adnan""
Edition Nautilus Hochbranden
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£19.80
Suhrkamp Verlag AG Sitt MarieRose
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Nightboat Books Surge
Book SynopsisA 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 writes: “Reality is messianic/apocalyptic/ my soul is my terror.”Trade Review"Surge, as the title suggests, is a book awash in movement: the movement of mind, of time and of memory. It presents an old poet at home, at night, roving through her recollections of dead or dying friends, landscapes passed through or lost. She muses on unresolvable ideas that have flickered at the edge of perception for countless sleepless nights."—Ian Malaney, The Irish Times""In perception, redemption,” Adnan declares in this assemblage of mystical, metaphysical ideas and aphorisms, often in conversation with the dead. “We have to say yes to that fate,” she writes of mortality, “and it’s hard, the hardest."" —Matt Flegenheimer, The New York Times"Adnan’s poetics brings the feminine power of the undetermined, casting language around what cannot, ultimately, be made certain. With skill, she uses words to obscure fixed notions of what it is to be a person, to experience pain, to think about it, and refracts thought matter back to the light of the moon. “That kind of motion,” she writes, “alters the world.”"—Alisha Mascarenhas, Poetry Project Newsletter #258"Rather than pin down or bemoan our lack of perceptual surety, Adnan builds a nebula for readers to drift about. Her pages are a place for us to submerge, to question ourselves and each other even as we want to reach out and affirm that yes, we saw some nice fish down there—the colors really set off the light."—K.B. Thors, Lambda Literary"In Surge, a new book of (mostly) taut prose formations, what she is thinking about at 93 seems to be the whole range of life on earth, explored with a more palpable sense of mortality than perhaps she could have expressed at 43 or 53… The action of the book is like a sewing machine: jabbing deeply and decisively into a subject and then quickly moving on."—Katharine Coldiron, VIDA"By looking out at the universe, we are looking into ourselves. By naming that shimmering, we are piecing ourselves together. Adnan has given us a new way of thinking through ourselves and the world, our place in the universe."—Emma Ramadan, Full Stop"As a wave does. Of the sea, of emotion, of thinking. Meaning crests, blinks, and submits to the vast and chaotic flow of thought. Nothing stays. The workings of the mind keep happening. Etel Adnan’s long poem, Surge, published through Nightboat Press this summer, attunes to such a motion; humbling itself to the forces beyond a singular subjectivity. It is a philosophical succession of aphoristic thoughts, turning its reader in on herself and back out again; visiting questions of being, of perception, with the rigour of a thinker who has lived a deeply curious life."—Alisha Mascarenhas, The Poetry Project Newsletter
£9.99
City Lights Books In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country
Book SynopsisA 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 that impress the mind during times of heightened historic upheavals, but rather the uninterrupted flow of little experiences, observations, disturbances, small ecstasies, or barely perceptible discouragements that make up day-to-day living.""As the new world order continues to produce and rewrite our history, mainstream literary culture invades our consciousness to finally sever us from reality. Steadfast in her adherence to the world, Etel Adnan’s work is a mix of prose, poetry, political insight, philosophic speculation and historical remembrance honed here to mineral perfection. Working close to the very heart of American poetic power but from the centers of official recognition, Adnan has been delivering the n
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Edition Nautilus Die Stille verschieben
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£19.80
Edition Nautilus Zeit
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£19.80
Edition Nautilus Sturm ohne Wind
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£32.30
Interlink Publishing Group, Inc Master Of The Eclipse
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£13.49
Edition Nautilus Adnan E Gesprche mit meiner Seele
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£19.80
Nightboat Books The Beauty of Light
Book SynopsisA lively and spontaneous interview with Etel Adnan about her absolute belief in the beauty of the world and the beauty of art. In these interviews with journalist and editor Laure Adler, conducted in the months before her death in November 2021, Etel Adnan traces with depth and emotion the founding experiences of her artistic approach, between poetry and painting. From her youth in Lebanon, her American years in New York and California, to her late recognition at Documenta in 2012 and her life in France, the conversation covers philosophy, painting, poetry and aesthetics, as well Adnan''s views on history and politics in Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. These transcripts usher the experiences and observations of Adnan''s long and rich life into an intimate and spontaneous conversation with a dear friend—a window on the “universe” of her imagination.
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Nightboat Books Night
Book SynopsisEtel 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.Trade Review“Trained in philosophy, Beirut-born author/activist Adnan blends a meditation on the meaning of memory with memories themselves, dredged up from a long life. And surely night, her setting here, is the time for such dredging. Adnan rigorously asserts that “reason and memory move together.” But she argues that “a remembered event is a return to a mystery,” and her writing is eye-openingly lush, gorgeous, even surreal (“waves of roses are blanketing memory”), showing us the mind at work on its unstructured, uncertain edges. The epigrammatic ending, “Conversations with my soul” (“Why are we lonelier when/ together”), will feed even those who don’t typically read poetry. VERDICT A good way for sophisticated readers to recall why they first loved verse.”—Library Journal“These poems engage in a daring, meditative exploration of perception and her own experiences. Adnan does this with a courageous interiority that becomes universal as the text unfolds. Memory is a particularly notable leitmotif as it relates to identity, whether personal or collective.” —Publishers Weekly
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Nightboat Books Time
Book SynopsisWINNER 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 seventies in Tunisia, sparking a collection of poems that would unspool over the next decade in a continuous discovery of the present moment. Originally written in French, these poems collapse time into single crystallized moments then explode outward to take in the scope of human history. In Time, we see an intertwining of war and love, coffee and bombs, empathetic observation and emphatic detail taken from both memory and the present of the poem to weave a tapestry of experience in non-linear time.Trade Review"A fragmentary, aphoristic examination of night in all its illuminating darkness from a Lebanese-American poet who is also an admired visual artist."—David Orr, The New York Times Book Review, "Best of 2016 Poetry" "Renowned Lebanese-American writer Adnan maps consciousness in a book-length poem that explores night in all its permutations. Though she is more elliptical and fragmentary here—and less narrative-driven or referential—than in previous work, these poems engage in a daring, meditative exploration of perception and her own experiences. Adnan does this with a courageous interiority that becomes universal as the text unfolds. Memory is a particularly notable leitmotif as it relates to identity, whether personal or collective. 'I measure my memory of things, but not memory itself, as the present is also overflowing,' she writes. These internal and societal memories lend themselves to queries about history, landscape, and the nature of consciousness. Adnan posits that memory is not a 'storage room. It’s not a tool for being able to think, it’s thinking, before thinking.' As the book progresses, memory becomes increasingly knotted with loss and mortality: 'It was said that people mattered, which we did, and they lost their shine.' Adnan never provides clear answers, but this prevents her wide-ranging assertions from becoming didactic; her evocative imagery and interwoven repetitions serve to create another memory—one that will linger with the reader long after the text’s conclusion."—Publishers Weekly "Adnan’s Time is a book that crosses continents, encounters wars and heartbreaks, and looks brazenly at one’s own mortality. And these poems do exactly what Adnan states, 'I would like to reflect like a / buoy, thrown out from the depths / to the luminous mortal surface / of the sea.'"—Jennifer Firestone, Tarpaulin Sky "There is a lot happening in these meditative postcards, from bombs dropping in Beruit to a return to Greece, sculptures or stripmining in California, composing a sequence of lyric sketches aware of and very concerned with how easily humanity turns against itself and its own interests, from the larger issues of planetary survival, to the intimate matters of how one person treats another… Yet her poems are filled with such a wonder and an openness, one that shows a wisdom, and, despite everything, an optimism and heart."—rob mclennan, rob mclennan's blog "Through this rejection of boundaries, Adnan delivers an incomparable magnitude of emotional wisdom on the uncertainties that press on through life, writing both clarity and complication into our experience of reality."—Zeena Yasmine Fuleihan, Ploughshares "Adnan poetically navigates the currents of desperation and hope with a clarity placed on the page in short stanzas that we can pick up and roll over in our minds again and again. Like the short lines written on the back of a postcard, the aphoristic quality of these verses allows them to take on different lives. They can be worked over with a different temporality as we return to them for multiple readings, as we explore how they interact with the preceding or following ones, and as we observe how they take on new shapes."—Emma Gomis, Asymptote Journal "Time is a place where language creates the meaningful space between souls, and the great threat to the truth. Time is a place where communication is sacred, where 'love is the subversion of / death', true living, and the body is a communicator of the self. 'Describe the body / if you can / and you will see how unlikely / your soul is.' The body then too is essential to language, to communication, to the 'inbetween' as 'it bursts with life and lasts / briefly.' And its greatest threat is time. Adnan urges we 'listen to the sound of [our] arteries.' She means everything has something to tell us. Everything is offering us an inbetween to come alive in, and we only have so long."—Erintrude Pieta, Kenyon Review
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Edition Nautilus Von Frauen und Städten
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£19.80
Suhrkamp Verlag AG Im Herzen des Herzens eines anderen Landes
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£14.25
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig LUMA: ABCD
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£29.00
Saqi Books Arabicity
Book SynopsisBeautifully produced volume, including over 200 artworks by more than 35 contemporary Arab artists, whose ground-breaking works reflect the pulse of regionTrade Review`Impressive ... articulated as much by intellectual discipline as gut passion.' The Morning Star; `Provocative and reflective ... Arabicity is a wonderful collection of visual art which also serves as excellent introduction to the world of modern Arabic art. This book will be a worthwhile addition to anyone's collection of contemporary visual arts.' Blogcritics
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Caitlin Press Time Out of Time
Book SynopsisIf books come from books, as David W. McFadden has claimed, then TIME OUT OF TIME is a clear example, arising, very deliberately as it does, out of Etel Adnans astonishing collection entitled Time. The poems in TIME OUT OF TIME are in love with the poems in Adnans Time and, it seems, Paré has fallen in love with Times author, Etel Adnan, the internationally renowned poet and painteror perhaps it is that she has merely fallen in love with Adnans words. Parés poems mirror the form, the rhythm, the shape, the short, brief lines in her own spare missives that are the poems in Time. This mirroring increases the intensity of TIME OUT OF TIME, creating a rare intimacy in Parés collection. Parés work pays homage to Adnans work. Both collections pay homage to the world of the lesbian in the twenty-first century and to the world of the small poem. Using clear, crisp, well-defined language in visibly defined geometries, in stanza after sweet-smelling stanza, Paré attempts to examine the trials of this new century, the hush around the word lesbian, the hush of the worlds general collapse.
£12.59
AKI Verlag Die Schönheit des Lichts
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£19.20
Walther Konig, Verlag Campo Del Cielo Meteorites v 2 Vol 2 El Chaco
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Nightboat Books Sea and Fog
Book SynopsisTwo striking lyric essays from master poet and philosopher Etel AdnanTrade ReviewAwards: Winner The 2013 Lambda Book Prize in Poetry (Lesbian Poetry) Winner: The 2013 California Book Award in Poetry Runner-Up: The 2013 Arab American Book Award Review Quote: “This is the vision of an artist who has seen and thought much, and whose concern for the universe of which she counts herself a citizen runs deep… Sea and Fog concerns itself with universal forces, refusing to shy away from the most tragic repeating cycles of human nature: departure, death, war, and love. Hope, in its conventional form, may not be present in these pages, but deep understanding that may lead us there—that, perhaps, we may read into the endless motion of Adnan’s fog-fringed sea.”—Lambda Literary Review “Etel Adnan sharpens the starkness of the world of matter and anti-matter. These texts are psalms that stretch from the sublime to the violent, journey from Yosemite Valley to a soldier’s jeep in the desert, and gather from Dostoevsky to Scalapino. A history, a gospel, a prayer book, it dwells in the divine.”—Elmaz Abinader
£999.99
Kampa Verlag Die Schönheit des Lichts
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£999.99
JRP Ringier Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige
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£999.99
PAJ Publications,U.S. The Sun on the Tongue
Book SynopsisThe 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 visual artist, crosses genres and continents and centuries in her literary texts, plays, poems, and art. Her plays At A Certain Hour of the Night, Crime of Honor and Tolerance are featured here, along with essays on Pina Bausch and Paul Klee, and an interview on her life and work. Her texts have been performed or adapted for theatre, opera, and radio in the U.S. and Europe. Robert Wilson invited her to write the French section of his multi-country opera, the CIVIL warS: a tree is best measured when it is down, in 1984.Trade Review"Etel Adnan is a polymath. Her work crosses many dimensions: cartographies, drawings, films, notebooks, novels, paintings, plays, poems, political journalism, tapestries, teaching, and her most recent works, her sculptures. Adnan is one of the greatest artists of our time, and an inspiration to so many other artists." * Hans Ulrich Obrist *"Arguably the most celebrated and accomplished Arab American author writing today." * Melus: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States *"Etel Adnan is a world treasure whom more of the world needs to know. Her poetry, her visual art, her longstanding feminist vision—a philosophical poethics of rage transmuted into love and vice versa—is crucial to the kinds of creative generosity that must replace our geopolitical cordoning off of the disasters of 'others.'" * Joan Retallack *"Adnan's work is the anti-Ozymandias—a corrective to exuberant art-world bling. There is none of the bravado or self-regarding mythologizing of other artists of her stature." -- Negar Azimi * Wall Street Journal Magazine *"An iconic Lebanese-American cultural figure." -- Nana Asfour * Paris Review *"Her writing is as fiercely complex and political as her paintings are serenely spare and personal." -- Kaelen Wilson-Goldie * Frieze *"With ever-increasing wisdom and clarity, Etel Adnan's work continues to illuminate the human condition. From the very distant past to the all-consuming present, she has found ways to condense intellect and emotion into surprising forms that enact the dance towards freedom." * Ammiel Alcalay *"Etel Adnan is a remarkable visionary, poet, writer, philosopher, and painter. An intellectual mind who dares to dream. She takes us to worlds that are real and other worlds at the same time." -- Robert Wilson"It must be evident to anyone even slightly aware of Etel Adnan's career that her work exhibits formidable intellectual and creative range. Adnan has refused to be bound by the constraints of nation, gender, genre, medium, or discipline, in order to venture into explorations of social, political, imagined, and aesthetic surfaces and sites. Over the years she has been saddened by the prevalence of suffering, and she has always been intolerant of stupidity. But at its core, her work is a manifestation of an enduring will to life and an impassioned capacity for joy." * Lyn Hejinian *"Etel Adnan is a beacon of thought in a disrempt world. In her writing, I sense her hovering just beyond, in view but ungraspable, yet grounding me in ever changing realization: luminous company, trusted guide, necessary source of immediate information. Adnan is a visionary of the meteoric and diasporic. Oscillating between the ecstatic and the unbearable, she finds home in the evasive emplacements of each moment." * Charles Bernstein *
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