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Alessandro Sanna
A wordless picture book about human destruction throughout the ages from the perspecitve of a stone.
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Ammiel Alcalay
Ammiel Alcalay’s groundbreaking work, After Jews and Arabs, published in 1993, redrew the geographic, political, cultural, and emotional map of relations between Jews and Arabs in the Levantine/Mediterranean world over…
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By exposing the rich and diverse textual and cultural legacy of this time and space, Alcalay reassesses the exclusion of Semitic culture in Europe from the perspective of contemporary Arabic…
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This first anthology of twentieth-century Israeli literature to feature the work of writers who were born in-or whose families originated from-the Levant, Turkey, Iran, India, and Arab worlds represents twenty-four…
This long awaited second edition brings back into print Ammiel Alcalay’s book-length poem dedicated to the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, site of the massacre of some 7,000 Muslim men and…
Set against the backdrop of the Cold War, the war in Iraq, and 9/11, ‘A Little History’ explores the deep politics of memory and imagination while proposing a new paradigm…
Semezdin Mehmedinovic
At the end of 1992, poet, writer, and co-director of the award-winning film Mizaldo , Semezdin Mehmedinovic published a book of spare and haunting stories and poems that described the…
This text features essays from Ammiel Alcalay covering Mediterranean culture, Arabic literature, the war in Bosnia, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, the destruction of Carthage, and much more.
Semezdin Mehmedinovic explores the vast space of his new continent. Mostly written in response to a cross-country journey by train in post 9/11 America, Mehmedinovic’s Nine Alexandrias provides a poetry…
Faraj Bayrakdar
In 2002-just after 9/11 and prior to the US invasion of Iraq-a group inspired by Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury’s seminar on Arab prison literature decided to collectively translate Syrian poet…
Benjamin Hollander
Letters addressed to Charles Olson, author of The Maximus Poems
Shimon Ballas
Tells more about Iraq than many commentaries being offered up these days. –Le Monde
Diane Prima
Lyrical and unforgettable, part elegy and part memoir, we present a previously unpublished masterpiece from the Beat Generation icon. Simultaneously released with an expanded edition of di Prima’s classic Revolutionary…
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Michael Seth Stewart
Four unpublished journals by a master of the form, one of the greatest American poets of the 20th Century.
