Poetry
The Arab Apocalypse
By Etel Adnan
Translated from the French by the author
This book, a master work of the dislocations and radiant outcries of the Arab World, reaffirms Etel Adnan as one of the foremost poets.—Jack Hirschman
It has a power and intensity that few poets today can muster—only
Allen Ginsberg's Howl comes to mind.
—Alice Molloy, Mama Bears
The power of Adnan's language and imagery reminds us that she is
indeed one of the most significant post-modern poets in contemporary Arab
culture.
—Kamal Boullatta, Merip Report
The Arab Apocalypse is, to date, Adnan's most triumphant battle
with the exactness of words.
—Douglas Powell, Poetry Flash
The poem invokes a mythic past of Gilgamesh, Tammouz, and Ishtar...to
presage a present that resists narration, The Arab Apocalypse contests
an uncritical reflection on the immediate historical past.
—Barbara Harlow, American Book Review
Read an excerpt from this book.
1st edition 1989; 3rd edition 2007 with a new Foreword by Jalal Toufic
82 pages $20.00 ISBN: 978-0-942996-60-9
