Synopses & Reviews
Nonfiction. "Written against the background of war at the turn of this century, this millennium - the Gulf War, the Lebanese civil war and the military occupations of that country, the author's country of origin - these letters, OF CITIES AND WOMEN, are in their turn now letters to cities and women - that we, that is, women and men alike, might eventually, before it is too late, 'find the right geography for our revelations'" - Barbara Harlow.
About the Author
Etel Adnan is an Arab-American poet and writer who studied at the Sorbonne in France, U.C. Berkeley, and Harvard. She taught Philosophy at Dominican College in San Rafael, California. She is the author of SITT MARIE-ROSE, the celebrated novel on the Civil War in Lebanon (translated into ten languages). She is the author of more than ten books of poetry, essays, and cultural writings. SEASONS is her latest poetry book on which Grimes wrote: "'A childhood of thorns and roses.' Winter, spring, summer and fall. 'For the poor, winter is natural habitat, with pockets empty, depleted, belly empty, in an abandoned garden between the high-rises.' Etel Adnan's meditations, and her poetry, are there in this 'abandoned garden,' speaking to us, and for us, the lament we all must feel, with yet the hope we cannot deny, perched on 'the cliff, and waiting.' We all wait with her."