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To look at the sea is to become what one is : an Etel Adnan reader / [Etel Adnan] ; edited by Thom Donovan & Brandon Shimoda.

Title
To look at the sea is to become what one is : an Etel Adnan reader / [Etel Adnan] ; edited by Thom Donovan & Brandon Shimoda.
Author
Adnan, Etel
Publication
  • Brooklyn & Callicoon, New York : Nightboat Books, [2014]
  • ©2014

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Additional Authors
  • Donovan, Thom
  • Shimoda, Brandon
  • Alcalay, Ammiel
  • Swensen, Cole, 1955-
  • Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe
Description
2 volumes : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
This landmark two-volume edition follows Adnans' work from the infernal elegies of the 1960s to the ethereal meditations of her later poems, to form a portrait of an extraordinarily impassioned and prescient life. Ranging between essay, fiction, poetry, memoir, feminist manifesto, and philosophical treatise, while often challenging the conventions of genre, Adnans' works give voice to the violence and revelation of the last six decades as it has centered, in part, within the geopolitics of the Arab world, and in particular the author's native Beirut. Among the key works reproduced in their entirety are Sitt Marie Rose (1978); The Arab Apocalypse (1980); Journey to Mount Tamalpais (1986); and Of Cities & Women (1993).
Alternative Title
Etel Adnan reader
Subject
American literature > Arab American authors
Genre/Form
Essays
Note
  • "Etel" on page preceding title page, volume 1; "Adnan" on page preceding title page, volume 2.
  • Volume 1, essay by Ammiel Alcalay; volume 2, essay by Cole Swensen.
  • "Drawings in The Arab Apocalypse were made for this edition by Etel Adnan in January 2014"--Title page verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Volume 1. Essay by Ammiel Alcalay -- Volume 2. Essay by Cole Swensen.
ISBN
  • 193765821X
  • 9781937658212
  • 9781937658211 (canceled/invalid)
OCLC
  • 880675044
  • SCSB-11063340
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library