A Prayer for Clytemnestra
I had been told that you would come back. I woke with the knowledge of that. But among the gods now there is no one who oversees my actions… More
(Poem from a Prison Cell)
If you ask after my finest day / on an occasion when words of pride are called for / I’d call history to mind, and say: / It was… More
Animals in our Days
The eyes of the oryx between Rusafa and Jisr/ Have brought on a desire whose source I both know and know not.—Ali bin al-JahmIn field research, Dr. Larissa Conradt… More
Elias Khoury: White Masks
PrologueThis is no tale. And it may not be of particular interest to readers, as people these days have more important things to do than read stories or listen… More
Yehuda Halevi: The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain
Poems from The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492, (Princeton University Press).Translated from the Arabic by Peter ColePeter Cole is the recipient of… More