Master of the Eclipse

by Adnan, Etel

• ISBN13: 9781566567794
• ISBN10: 1566567793
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-05-01
• Publisher: Interlink Pub Group Inc

Summary

What are poets for in these destitute times? Etel Adnan asks through Houmlet;lderlin's voice, and then answers in prose through her own. It is a prose of uncanny elegance and skepticism and conscience which voices what chokes us into silence, as it asks: what do we make of our tourists of war-professors, directors, journalists-and whom do we imagine for their subjects? How do we re-name, as if the facts call for us to be astonished, "the beings wearing bulletproof jackets," the masters playing the empathy card with their victims, the stateless living among the over-stated? Book jacket.

Author Biography

The Lebanese-American poet, artist, and public intellectual Etel Adnan is the author of more than a dozen books. Her groundbreaking novel Sitt Marie Rose is one of the defining narratives of the Lebanese civil war.

Table of Contents

Master of the Eclipse	p. 3
The Power of Death	p. 49
The American Malady	p. 73
annunciation	p. 85
First Passion	p. 91
My Friend Kate	p. 105
Eavesdropping	p. 117
Yellow, Yellow Cab	p. 123
Listen, Hassan...	p. 135
Amal Hayati	p. 147
The Radio	p. 157
A Stream Near Damascus	p. 165
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