Etel Adnan

Time

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On October 27, 2003, Adnan received a post card of a palm tree from the poet Khaled Najar, who she had met in the late seventies in Tunisia, sparking a collection of poems that would unspool over the next decade in a continuous discovery of the present moment. Originally written in French, these poems collapse time into single crystallized moments then explode outward to take in the scope of human history. In Time, we see an intertwining of war and love, coffee and bombs, empathetic observation and emphatic detail taken from both memory and the present of the poem to weave a tapestry of experience in non-linear time.
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28 printed pages
Original publication
2020
Publication year
2020
Translator
Sarah Riggs
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Quotes

  • negro sonda espacialhas quoted3 years ago
    I am half of the universe
    will I ever be a whole being?
  • negro sonda espacialhas quoted3 years ago
    Talal Haydar is closer to the truth than I am, being of
    this place.
    He used to pick up the moon
    between the stones and take her to his bed …
    These days, he bends to pick up a flower—
    finds traces of blood.
  • negro sonda espacialhas quoted3 years ago
    Syria has always been the mother
    of chaos. A land parallel to
    all the others. In the epiphany
    of a sun to come,
    breathless.

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