Of Cities & Women (Letters To Fawwaz) Holly Pester and giving what you don’t

and giving what you don’t have

translation David Hinton

Would the seams afford a new sensibility around the pronoun "you"

the poet lived in Paris where he worked with Roland Barthes

Of Cities & Women (Letters To Fawwaz) Holly Pester and giving what you don’tEtel Adnan In these letters, written to Fawwaz Traboulsi, sent from Barcelona, Aix en Provence, Skopelos, Murcia, Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, and Beirut in lieu of an essay on feminism for a special issue of his magazine Zawaya on Arab Women, Etel Adnan unfolds startling meditations on gender, place, culture, landscape, vision, eros, illness, mortality, and war. Of Cities and Women is a philosophical and poetic tour de force.