Of Cities & Women (Letters To Fawwaz) Holly Pester for poetry to speak

for poetry to speak

Would the seams afford a new sensibility around the pronoun "you"

and giving what you don’t have

"Amanda Berenguer's poems from the 1980s collected under the title of The Lady of Elche are

the poet lived in Paris where he worked with Roland Barthes

Of Cities & Women (Letters To Fawwaz) Holly Pester for poetry to speakEtel Adnan In these letters, written to Fawwaz Traboulsi, sent from Barcelona, Aix en Provence, Skopelos, Murcia, Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, and Beirut in lieu of an essay on feminism for a special issue of his magazine Zawaya on Arab Women, Etel Adnan unfolds startling meditations on gender, place, culture, landscape, vision, eros, illness, mortality, and war. Of Cities and Women is a philosophical and poetic tour de force.