Far too few U.S. based poets have had long-term interest and involvement in Arabic culture. Given that Pierre Joris is one of those few, this collection of essays, translations, ruminations, and encounters provides a timely opportunity to engage with someone whose own poetics have been formed by this immersion and familiarity. This collection traverses decades at the
Read Arabia (not so) Deserta: Essays on Maghrebi & Mashreqi Writing & Culture - Pierre Joris | ePub
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He goes to arabia thinking he will be a superior among primitives, and he leaves arabia, two years later, convinced that this has, indeed, been the case. In my opinion, the one who comes out the worst from the experience, is himself, although i have to thank him for recording his experiences and so, giving me the oportunity of reading between.
Collaborations with jerome rothenberg, peter cockelbergh, interest in arabic poetry (arabia (not so) deserta (2019). Lives in brooklyn with his wife, performance-artist nicole peyrafitte.
It was in this neighborhood, and not in that of idumea, that the chaldeans and sabeans who plundered him dwell. The arabs divide their country into the north, called sham, or the left; and the south, called yemen, or the right; for they faced east; and so the west was on their left.
Doughty was one of those legendary eccentric englishmen who made the late-victorian era so brilliantly fun to read about. Arabia deserta (and, yes, the full work is worth finding) is his account of his wanderings amongst the bedouin of what's now southern jordan and northern saudi arabia, back when it was all loosely under turkish rule.
Once into politics and winning the presidential election he was done some not so good things. However not everything was bad, he did do good things to our economy. In this essay, i am going to explain the good and bad, donald trump has done during his presidential term.
In writing arabia deserta, he later said, my main intention was not so much the setting forth of personal wandering among a people of biblical interest, as the ideal endeavor to continue the older tradition of chaucer and spenser, resisting to my power the decadence of the english language; so that whilst my work should be the mere verity for orientalists, it should be my life's contribution so far to literature.
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