Poetry. A poem about everyday life in New York during the Three Mile Island nuclear accident; a subtle yet merciless indictment of nuclear war.

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ADNAN, Etel

Poetry

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Literary Nonfiction. JOURNEY TO MOUNT TAMALPAIS is an essay on Nature, Art, and the relationship between them. Highly original in both content and literary structure, it provides a new outlook on the importance of Nature as an element of thinking; one of the major works on the "spirit of place" in contemporary literature. This book is illustrated with 17 drawings by the author. "An enlightening journey for those who love the mountain, and for those who love Etel Adnan."—Wendell Berry

Journey to Mount Tamalpais

Biographies & Memoirs

Poetry. Illustrated with etchings by Russell Chatham. "Throughout the seven sections that are woven into a unified whole, Adnan displays a remarkable sensibility for the precise details that fuse the landscapes of individual and social nightmares. Through an ingenious synthesis of the best elements of the surrealist, cut-up and Language schools of writing, Adnan has attained a unique poetic voice."—The San Francisco Chronicle

The Indian Never Had a Horse & Other Poems

Nonfiction. Rumi is one of the great mystics of Islam. He founded in the XIIIth century a brotherhood in the Turkish city of Konya, famous for the use of music in the context of spiritual experience. To understand Rumi is to enter the world of Islam in its true sense: known as a "Sufi," Rumi is on par with the spiritual Masters of all great religious traditions. Written by Eva de Vitray-Meyerovitch, a French scholar who became a believer in Islam through her works on Sufism, this book is the best initiation not only to Rumi, but to Islamic thought: it is clear, elegant, scholarly, beautiful. It is an excellent tool for serious students of Islam as well as for the general public who wants to approach Islamic civilization with the respect and competence it requires. It should be on the program of any studies dealing with Islam, comparative studies of religions, the values and politics of the Islamic world. It is a key to the underlying world-view which it is impossible to understand without comprehending its spiritual roots. But this book is also about the life and writings of one of the great poets of the world.

RUMI AND SUFISM

Religion & Spirituality

Vitray-Meyerovitch, Eva De

Islam

Poetry. Translated from the French by Josef Simas, with Lydia Davis, Anthony Barnett and Douglas Oliver. "There is no other poetry like this in the world. Even at its most difficult, its passions are mesmerizing. It is a great triumph to have carried these extraordinary pages into the English language."—Paul Auster"Here is the poet for whom the voice itself rings in its silent echo, reaching ever farther into the constancy of reflection, ever further into something unknown, unknowable, frightening...."—Gale Nelson"It is a book of fourteen poems...which seem to be a meditation on an already-distanced interior drama, a kind of passion both in the sensual and in the suffering senses."—Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Mezza Voce

Albiach, Anne-Marie

Home For The Summer is the haunting tale of a disturbed teenage girl returning from two years in a mental facility. Alice is "funny, sharp-witted, and in some ways deeply moral," (New York Times Review of Books) but she is also capable of unpredictable cruelty and violence. As the novel unfolds, secrets from the past are revealed; and a simple narrative becomes a gripping parable about the disintegration of the American family.

HOME FOR THE SUMMER

Kleege, Georgina

United States

Poetry. "With this book of poems Etel Adnan establishes herself as a major poet who belongs beside internationally acclaimed poets like Tranströmer, Bly, Neruda, Vallejo, and Pessoa."—Eric Sellin

The Spring Flowers Own and the Manifestations of the Voyage

Josef is dying, and while dying, he seems to radiate a strange black light which attracts family, friends, and neighbors. Ulla Berkewicz writes a text which could also be read like commentaries and indications of a film director for a silent movie. It is by a series of body movements and gestures, and a few utterances, that we witness the workings of death around and in the body of an old man alive to the last second of his life.

JOSEF IS DYING

Berkewicz, Ulla

Contemporary

SAVANNAH BAY 
Written for legendary French actress, Madeleine Renaud, this play explores questions of identity, aging, and the fugitive memory of personal tragedy. A young woman desperately desires to find out the truth about her mother. Her interrogation of an old woman (Madeleine) reveals secrets and sorrows that had been carefully stowed in the past... 
AGATHA 
An empty house, its walls bare, a window open on a winter sun, a deserted beach nearby, where no one will go. A brother and a sister, dressed in all variations of the color white, are tearing themselves off from the impossible, telling each other, over and over, the devastating violence of their incestuous love, remembering, remembering...

Agatha & Savannah Bay

DURAS, Marguerite

Dramas & Plays

Fiction. Etel Adnan's novel "PARIS, WHEN IT'S NAKED amazes our retinas, ears, lips, fingertips, and noses with sensing, talking, and envisioning the city of Baudelaire and Delacroix, Mallarme and Picasso, Sartre and Djuna Barnes, Miller and Nin, Vietnamese and African refugees, revolutions and Bohemia. This tale of the Creative Now is told through the fine-tuned sensibility of Etel Adnan, the expatriate poet-painter who knows the French Capital as wholly as she does Beirut and San Francisco, her other homes. She is also the author of SITT MARIE-ROSE, an underground novel of the Lebanese Civil War, and many books of poetry. Her new work is a philosophically charged lyric in prose. The elan vital of every word evokes the eternal present of this wise woman. A highly personal, life-enhancing masterpiece in a deathly age of impersonality. An indespensable book by an indispensable writer" -Morgan Gibson.

Paris, When It's Naked

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