Surge

Appears on the New York Public Library's "Reading List for Arab American Heritage Month" A new volume of aphoristic prose and philosophical poetry from Etel Adnan, whose work The New York Times has described as the "meditative heir to Nietzsche's aphorisms, Rilke's Book of Hours and the verses of Sufi mysticism." She writes: "Reality is messianic/ apocalyptic/ my soul is my terror."