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The Perpetual Present of Etel Adnan Eileen Myles
Poetry
June 4, 2024
Open to All Levels
Tiered Tuition
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LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-7:30pm (Eastern Time)

Please join me in reading the book-length poem, The Arab Apocalypse, written in 1980 by Etel Adnan, artist and a novelist and one of the most significant post-modern poets in contemporary Arab culture. She died in 2021, the same year Time, translated by Sarah Riggs, won the Griffin Prize. Etel Adnan was born in Beirut, translated The Arab Apocalypse herself from French and this fiery, mournful and mutating book “has so surrendered to ‘being there,’ it can rivet the sensibility to the Middle Eastern condition at any point in the text,” with little 3-D pictograms occurring throughout. It is an astonishing feat, this book.

Recommended reading:

The Arab Apocalypse by Etel Adnan

Supplemental reading:

Sitt Marie Rose by Etel Adnan

“Jebu” a poem by Etel Adan (for a PDF copy, email jjean@fawc.org)

 

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About the Instructor/Moderator

Eileen Myles (they/them, b. 1949) is a poet, novelist and art journalist whose practice of vernacular first-person writing has made them one of the most recognized writers of their generation. Their newest books are Pathetic Literature and a “Working Life”, poems. Myles’s fiction includes Chelsea Girls (1994) which just won France’s Inrockuptibles Prize for best foreign novel, Cool for You (2000), Inferno (a poet’s novel) (2010) and Afterglow (2017). Writing on art was gathered in the volume The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art (2009). They live in New York & in Marfa, TX.

 

 

 

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