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Weight | .4 lbs |
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Dimensions | 6.2 × .5 × 8.8 in |
Format | eBook, Paperback |
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Weight | .4 lbs |
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Dimensions | 6.2 × .5 × 8.8 in |
Format | eBook, Paperback |
Winner: The 2013 Lambda Book Prize in Poetry
Winner: The 2013 California Book Award in Poetry
Runner-Up: The 2013 Arab American Book Award
These interrelated meditations explore the nature of the individual spirit and the individual spiritedness of the natural world. As skilled a philosopher as she is a poet, in Sea & Fog, Adnan weaves multiple sonic, theoretical, and syntactic pleasures at once.
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.
In these definitely ordered, yet infinitely variable, short prose-blocks, consciousness is fully immersed in the act of writing as motifs and concerns overlap and reoccur. There’s guiding awareness that “here,” wherever we may find ourselves, remains a definitive spot in observable time: “There’s a moment to the moment. We’re in the world.”