The Arab Apocalypse

Etel Adnan

• Other Authors Etel Adnan (Translator), Jalal Toufic (Foreword)
• Title

  The Arab Apocalypse

• Date 2007 [1989]
• ISBN 9780942996609
• Publisher Sausalito, CA: Post-Apollo Press
• Description 78 p.; 11 in.
• Language English
• Collections Permanent Collection, Residency Collection, KAF Residency, inseparable assembly Reading Room
• Summary

  "This book, a masterwork of the dislocations and radiant outcries of the Arab world, reaffirms Etel Adnan, who authored the great poem, Jebu, as among the foremost poets of the French Language. The Arab Apocalypse is an immersion into a rapture of chaos clawing towards destiny, and nullified hope refusing its zero. Is is also the journey of soul through the cartography of a global immediacy rarely registered by maps, replete with signposts like hieroglyphs in a storm of shrapnel and broken glass. And above all it is a book that, though capable of being read in its orderly sequence, has so surrendered to 'being there,' it can rivet the sensibility to the Middle Eastern condition at any point in the text--so rapid are its mutations, so becoming its becomingness--like a wisdom book or a book of Changes"—Jack Hirschman.

• Tags Middle Eastern studies, Poetry, Translation, Visual poetry