Results for "Adnan, Etel"

Shifting the Silence does just that, breaks the social taboo around writing and speaking about our own deaths. In short unrelenting paragraphs, Adnan enumerates her personal struggle to conceptualize the breadth of her own life at 95, the process of aging, and the knowledge of her own inevitable dea... Read More about Shifting the Silence

WINNER of the INTERNATIONAL GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE WINNER of the BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD FINALIST for the 2020 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD 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 ... Read More about Time

Paintings, poetry, artist's books and more from the iconic artist and poet As a poet, painter and philosopher, Lebanese American artist Etel Adnan was a major figure in Arab modernism. Her creative output was shaped by her extensive travels: from studying philosophy at the Sorbonne and Harvard, to t... Read More about Etel Adnan: Between East and West

These interrelated meditations explore the nature of the individual spirit and the individual spiritedness of the natural world. As skilled a philosopher as she is a poet, in Sea & Fog, Adnan weaves multiple sonic, theoretical, and syntactic pleasures at once.... Read More about Sea & Fog (Lambda Literary Award - Lesbian Poetry)

A lively and spontaneous interview with Etel Adnan about her absolute belief in the beauty of the world and the beauty of art. In these interviews with journalist and editor Laure Adler, conducted in the months before her death in November 2021, Etel Adnan traces with depth and emotion the founding ... Read More about The Beauty of Light: An Interview

Etel Adnan's evocative new book places night at its center to unearth memories held in the body, the spirit and the landscape. This striking new book continues Adnan's meditative observation and inquiry into the experiences of her remarkable life.... Read More about Night