Of Cities & Women (Letters To Fawwaz) Holly Pester the poet lived in Paris

the poet lived in Paris where he worked with Roland Barthes

translation David Hinton

"Amanda Berenguer's poems from the 1980s collected under the title of The Lady of Elche are

and giving what you don’t have

Her poems acknowledge an unrequitable gift: that of poetry

Of Cities & Women (Letters To Fawwaz) Holly Pester the poet lived in ParisEtel 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.